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Photography exhibit reexamining gender performance and LGBTQ sexual violence through the works of Natalie Kirk & Kyle Krueger. MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG 2 IN THIS GUIDE TICKET INFORMATION Page 5 FILM SERIES LIST Page 7 FILM DESCRIPTIONS Page 8 DAILY SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE Movies are meant to be shared. Page 20 FILM CHECKLIST Gathering with your neighbors, laughing together, to offer, with their prismatic ability to allow us to view Page 37 crying together, being frightened or outraged the world as it was (or as it imagined it was). Cinema’s together—this is a communal catharsis you simply history also reminds us that all the vibrant new films in THEATERS & TRANSPORTATION Page 39 won’t get on the couch. The best movies remind us this year’s fest will one day gain an additional hue, as a of our humanity, or perhaps allow us to forget it for documentary record of the moment we are in. a couple hours of bliss. Communities gain strength In Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami wrote, “If you by sharing experiences together as one, by creating only read the books that everyone else is reading, you mutual memories. In troubled times, art can be a salve. can only think what everyone else is thinking.” Surely FESTIVAL STAFF FILM PROGRAMMING (UW DEPARTMENT Of course, art alone isn’t going to change the world. the same goes for cinema, with its multiplex hegemony OF COMMUNICATION ARTS) But it can change your mind, by introducing you to on one end and “content” oriented streaming services Professor JJ Murphy, Artistic Director Jim Healy, Director of Programming unfamiliar perspectives. In the hush of a darkened on the other, their reassuring algorithms primed to Mike King, Senior Programmer theater, cinema beckons us into the lives of people of perpetually feed you more of what you already know. Ben Reiser, Wisconsin’s Own Programmer Matt St. John, Wisconsin’s Own Programmer different classes, genders, orientations, ethnicities, Here is a chance to step back and see what the rest & Print Traffic Coordinator politics, and eras than our own—and yet we recognize of the planet is watching, and thinking. At the end of Kristen Johnson, Wisconsin’s Own Programmer

ourselves in these stories. Older films have another layer these 8 days, you might see things differently, too. ADMINISTRATION (UW ARTS INSTITUTE) John Baldacchino, Executive Producer Ben Reiser, Festival Coordinator Director of Programming, Senior Programmer – JIM HEALY MIKE KING Staci Francis, Associate Director of Administration Sarah Chapeau, Travel and Lodging Coordinator Christina Martin-Wright, Associate Director for External Relations Terry Kerr, Volunteer & Big Screens Little Folks Educational Coordinator Cathy Sheets, Art Director Kate Lochner, Digital Marketing Specialist Heather Owens, Audience Development & Communications Specialist Lisa Spierer, Assistant Director for Media & Technology Mallory Murphy, Box Office Administration & Assistant Director for Outreach Programs Adriane Melchert, Box Office Manager Amy De Simone, Box Office Manager ABOUT US Karin Kolb, Big Screens, Little Folks Programmer First launched in 1999, the Nancy Heingartner, World Cinema Day Coordinator Wisconsin Film Festival has Aaron Granat, Festival Videographer brought more than 2,150 films to Aliza Rand, Festival Photographer Madison audiences. The Festival Ali Kloster, Editor presents the best new indepen- dent film (feature, documentary FILM PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS and experimental), world cin- Jim Healy (JH), Kristen Johnson (KJ), Mike The Wisconsin Film Festival is presented by the Uni- UW ARTS INSTITUTE STAFF ema and programming for chil- King (MK), Karin Kolb (KK), Vincent Mollica versity of Wisconsin–Madison Arts Institute in asso- (VM), JJ Murphy (JM), Ben Reiser (BR), Matt dren along with restorations and DIRECTOR’S OFFICE ciation with the Department of Communication Arts. St. John (MSJ) and Kyle Westphal (KW) rediscoveries. The Festival also John Baldacchino, Director 1050 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706 Sarah Chapeau, Assistant to the Director showcases the works of Wis- PROJECTIONISTS consin filmmakers through our 608-890-2718 Staci Francis, Associate Director of Administration MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG Julian Antos, Travis Bird, Justin Dean, Wisconsin’s Own section. [email protected] | artsinstitute.wisc.edu | arts.wisc.edu Kate Hewson, Assistant Director for Academic Programs Tanner Engbretson, Roch Gersbach, Christina Martin-Wright, Associate Director for External Relations Becca Hall and Monique Scheidler CONTACT THE ARTS INSTITUTE WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL In the spirit of the Wisconsin Idea, the Arts Institute COMMUNICATION ARTS SUPPORT STAFF 1050 University Ave, Madison, WI 53706 supports and promotes a comprehensive variety of Bob Dischler, Erik Gunneson, Boyd Hillestad, Jason Quist, Peter Sengstock and Michael Trevis 608-262-9009 | 877-963-FILM (3456) arts programs and disciplines, whether it is our own info@wifilmfest.org | wifilmfest.org specific programs or our partners’ events. By work- ing with over 130 faculty and staff affiliates in a wide FESTIVAL TRAILER @wifilmfest (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) range of departments and arts-related fields, the Arts Eric J Nelson (Heavy Visuals) The Arts on Campus website is a resource for arts DURING THE FESTIVAL Institute is in the position to create/generate condi- Music by Matt Sanborne events on campus. SEE 2017.WIFILMFEST.ORG tions for bold thinking and creative problem solving. Together with our partners, we can further develop arts.wisc.edu EVENT VIDEO STREAMING For additional questions or emergencies, call the Box Office 608-265-2933 and support a vibrant arts community. @uwmadisonarts (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) Focal Flame 3 MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG 4 TICKET INFORMATION

HOW TO PURCHASE TICKETS ORDER ONLINE: 2017.wifilmfe s t .o r g Advance tickets will be available online beginning Saturday, March 11 at noon. CALL: (608) 265-2933 Phone lines are open during Union South Ticket Booth hours (see hours of operation below).

STOP BY the official Wisconsin Film Festival box office at Union South beginning March 11 or the Sundance Cinemas box office beginning March 31.

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Returning ticket buyers will notice a few changes to online purchases, for instance, an account login is EMAIL WITH INQUIRIES AT: boxoffice@wifilmfest.org no longer required! We seek to provide the best possible ticket-buying experience for you, our valued patrons, and are delighted to partner with Vendini for the Festival's ticketing needs this year.

BOX OFFICE INFORMATION TICKET PRICES 1. UNION SOUTH TICKET BOOTH 2. SUNDANCE FESTIVAL PASS: STUDENT/SENIOR/MILITARY/ (1308 West Dayton Street, Madison) CINEMAS BOX OFFICE $ SEE WEBSITE UW FACULTY & STAFF: 325 FOR DETAILS (Hilldale, 430 N Midvale $8 HOURS OF OPERATION: Boulevard, Madison) GENERAL: Only 4 discounted tickets allowed per OPENING DAY MARCH 13 – MARCH 31 – APRIL 2: $10 screening, per transaction. Tickets are HOURS OF OPERATION: available to students of any university, college, OF TICKET SALES MARCH 30: 1 hour before the FIRST film of high school, etc; seniors 65 and over; military (Sat, March 11): MON – SAT the day begins until ½ hour after MARCH 31 – APRIL 6: BIG SCREENS, LITTLE FOLKS: personnel; and current UW or UW Health the LAST film of the day begins 1 hour before the film of NOON – 6 PM NOON – 6 PM FIRST faculty/staff. All discounted tickets are subject the day begins until ½ hour after $ 5 to verification. Please carry a valid ID. APRIL 3 - 6: The Union South Ticket Booth will be closed for the remainder of the Festival. the LAST film of the day begins

Purchasing ADVANCE TICKETS (a day or more before your film) in person? Visit either of these ALL ONLINE AND PHONE TRANSACTIONS will two box office locations during their respective hours of operation. have a 60¢ PER TICKET FEE applied. Waiting until the DAY OF your film to get tickets? Any available tickets will only be available for purchase at the venue where the film is being shown. ALL TICKET SALES ARE FINAL. No refunds or returns for tickets or vouchers. No refunds or replacements for lost tickets. To guarantee admittance, NOTE: Online sales are available 24/7 until 5:00 PM the night before each screening. After that, any ticket holders must arrive 15 minutes before the start of the film. available tickets can be purchased at the venue door the day of your film.

OPENING DAY OF TICKET SALES TIP PURCHASING TICKETS TICKET DELIVERY OPTIONS Arriving at the box office with a completed Ticket Check List (found in our printed DURING THE FESTIVAL USEFUL TIDBITS: Film Guide) will help keep you organized and speed your transaction. Day-of-show tickets are available at each WILL-CALL: Picking up your will-call tickets of the venues, but only for films being Festival Pass holders are given prior to the day of your film? ONLINE SALES TIP shown that day at that location. Tickets priority seating. (See website for Visit the Union South Ticketing This year, online ticket sales will work a little bit differently. If you’d like, use will be available for sale beginning one Festival Pass details.) To guarantee hour prior to the first film being shown Booth or Sundance Cinemas Box our online film guide found at 2017.wifilmfest.org to build a shopping list admittance, ticket holders must arrive at that venue that day. Cash, check or Office. See box office Information of films you’d like to buy tickets for. Then, reference that shopping list when 15 minutes before the start of the film. vouchers only (credit/debit cards will for hours of operation. purchasing tickets on our ticket vending website: go.wisc.edu/2017wff Many films are not rated. Viewer be accepted at Sundance Cinemas). Picking up your will-call tickets and parental discretion is advised. OR skip the online guide and use the checklist at the back of the day of your film? Your tickets Big Screens, Little Folks films are this guide before heading to go.wisc.edu/2017wff will be held at the venue where RUSH TICKETS suitable for the recommended age your film is being shown. Subject to availability, rush tickets are range listed in the film descriptions. REDEEMING YOUR HOLIDAY 10-PACK CERTIFICATES sold within 15 minutes of the start Any ticket holder with a discounted If purchasing your tickets in person or over the phone, simply share your code with the box of a film and can be purchased with MAIL: ticket may be required to show ID office staff member assisting you. If purchasing your tickets online, select all of the films for cash or voucher only. We recommend Tickets purchased before March for verification of the discount. which you will be using your code and follow the steps to check out. On the payment information showing up at least 30 minutes or more 22 can be mailed to you. After that, screen, select “Redeem benefits.” You will then be prompted to enter your first and last name before the film begins. All rush tickets all tickets will need to be printed All Wisconsin Film Festival seats as well as your alphanumeric comp code in the Patron ID box. If purchasing more tickets than are $10 each, except for Big Screens, at home or picked up at will-call. are general admission. Little Folks tickets, which remain $5. the value of your code, you will then be prompted to enter additional payment at that time. Heads up: If you need to exchange Ticket scalping (for any amount) tickets that are being mailed to is prohibited on Wisconsin BUYING AND REFUNDS/EXCHANGES you, this cannot be done until Film Festival grounds. All ticket sales are final. No refunds or you have the tickets in hand.

USING VOUCHERS Concerned about mobility or MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG replacements for lost tickets and no A voucher is a coupon good for accessibility issues within the theaters? refunds for vouchers. Tickets for past films one film (subject to availability). PRINT-AT-HOME: Talk with a member of the box office cannot be exchanged for future ones. A voucher must be exchanged After you print your tickets at staff at the time of purchase or send home, they will be scanned at the for a real ticket IN PERSON at Tickets for upcoming films may be an email to boxoffice@wifilmfest.org exchanged in person until close of door for entry. Please have your the box office ticket booth or For many venues, ticket holder and business the day before the original ticket’s print-at-home tickets separated at the “rush tickets/door sales” ticket buyer lines will be outdoors. screening, but only at the Union South and ready to be scanned upon table at the venue of your film. Please wear appropriate clothing Ticket Booth (through April 2) or Sundance entering the theater. Smart phone and bring an umbrella if needed. Vouchers can be purchased in person, over the phone or online (under “V” in the online Film Cinemas (through the end of the Festival). user? Pull up your tickets on Guide). They cannot e returned, refunded or replaced if lost. They CAN be given to others to use. No exchanges are possible at other venues. your phone to be scanned!

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AMERICAN VISIONS Frantz Goldstone The 60 Yard Line The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki Dark Night I, Daniel Blake Drifting Towards the Crescent Illegitimate Fraud Indivisible Golden Exits It’s Not the Time of My Life The Hero Kati Kati Infinity Baby Killing Ground Look and See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry Little Wing CONTEMPORARY COLOR The Missing Sun Lost in Paris One Potato, Two Potato Maria (and Everybody Else) Patti Cake$ Max & Leon Person to Person My Life as a Zucchini The Cinema Travellers RESTORATIONS AND Quest Neruda The Colorado NERUDA STEP Nocturama Contemporary Color REDISCOVERIES Sylvio One Week and a Day Dina Across the World and Back: Whose Streets? Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo Forever Pure Aloha Wanderwell Baker Broken Lullaby WISCONSIN’S OWN Parting The Freedom to Marry BIG SCREENS, LITTLE FOLKS Cock of the Air The 60 Yard Line Personal Shopper Gulîstan, Land of Roses The Crowd Almost Sunrise At Eye Level A Quiet Passion Machines The Crucible Creepshow - Wisconsin’s Own Spookiest Heidi The Rehearsal Obit Ernest Borgnine on the Bus + Marty Divided We Fall Mr. Frog The Salesman Stranger in Paradise The Front Page Drifting Towards the Crescent Short and Sweet Sami Blood The Gold of Naples Ernest Borgnine on the Bus Shorter and Sweeter Son of Joseph NEW WOMEN DIRECTORS The Incident From Mass to the Mountain The Student Alba King Of Jazz The Missing Sun GOLDEN BADGER Things to Come Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains Forever Pure Portraits and Pictures from Wisconsin’s Own Those Who Make Revolution Halfway One Potato, Two Potato AWARD WINNERS Gulîstan, Land of Roses Seeds and Cells - Milwaukee Stories Only Dig Their Own Graves Time to Die Cliff, Superfan! Little Wing Speaking in Tongues - Wisconsin’s Own Shorts Wet Woman in the Wind Titicut Follies Daedelus and Icarus Maria (and Everybody Else) There Are Jews Here Wigilia The Traveler Lingua Absentia Sami Blood Transmissions from the Heartland - Yourself and Yours STEP SHORTS SERIES Wisconsin’s Own Short Documentaries NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA Whose Streets? NEW INTERNATIONAL Creepshow – Wisconsin’s Own Spookiest Afterimage CLOSING NIGHT Portraits and Pictures from Wisconsin’s Own Alba DOCUMENTARIES NICK OFFERMAN DAY Transmissions from the Heartland – King of Jazz Clash Abacus: Small Enough to Jail The Hero Wisconsin’s Own Short Documentaries The Lost City of Z A Decent Woman American Anarchist Infinity Baby Short and Sweet My Life as a Zucchini Dogs Bugs Look and See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry Shorter and Sweeter Patti Cake$ The Donor The Challenge My Life as a Zucchini Speaking in Tongues – Wisconsin’s Own Shorts STEP

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Across the World Afterimage and Back: Aloha Powidoki Wanderwell Baker FRI, MAR 31 • 3:30 PM UNION SOUTH MARQUEE SUN, APR 2 • 11:00 AM SAT, APR 1 • 3:45 PM UW CINEMATHEQUE SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 The 60 Yard Line HEATHER LINVILLE SCHEDULED TO APPEAR Narrative • Poland • 2016 • DCP • Polish SUN, APR 2 • 7:00 PM SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Other • with English subtitles • 98 MIN USA • HD Projection • 60 MIN BARRYMORE THEATRE Director: Andrzej Wajda; Screenwriter: SECTION: RESTORATIONS Andrzej Mularczyk; Producer: Michał Alba RYAN CHURCHILL, NICK GRECO, LEIF GANTVOORT SCHEDULED TO APPEAR AND REDISCOVERIES Kwiecinski; Editor: Grazyna Gradon; Cast: WORLD PREMIERE • Narrative • USA • 2016 • DCP • 96 MIN Aloha Wanderwell Baker (1906-1996) Bogusław Linda, Bronisława Zamachowska, SAT, APR 1 • 11:30 AM Zofia Wichłacz, Krzysztof Pieczynski, Maria Director: Leif Gantvoort; Screenwriter: Ryan Churchill, Nick Greco; Producer: SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 was the first woman to travel around Semotiuk; Cinematographer: Paweł Edelman Alex McCullough; Editor: Andy Bates, Brody Gusar; Cast: Ryan Churchill, Nick Greco, Kimberly Crossman, Jacquelyn Zook, Dana Duarey, Leif Gantvoort, the world by car and this special pre- SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA MON, APR 3 • 6:30 PM Mindy Sterling, Randall Park, Cedric Yarbrough, Chuck Liddell, Mark Tauscher, sentation of footage from her 16mm SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 The final film from Andrzej Wajda John Kuhn, Aman Green; Cinematographer: Cameron Schmucker and 35mm film collection preserved (1926-2016), the Godfather of contem- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • SECTION: AMERICAN VISIONS, WISCONSIN’S OWN by the Academy Film Archive reveals Ecuador, Greece, Mexico • 2016 • DCP • porary Polish cinema, is a profoundly A romantic comedy, a heartwarming bromance, a dark exploration of the story of Aloha’s around-the-globe Spanish with English subtitles • 98 MIN relevant dramatized biography of the the relationship between booze and Midwestern sports mania, a bawdy adventures that captured the people, Director: Ana Cristina Barragán; Screenwriter: avant garde artist and art instruc- Ana Cristina Barragán; Producer: Isabella frat-boy fantasy come to life, a sly meditation on putting aside child- cultures and historical landmarks tor Wladyslaw Strzeminski. Wajda Parra, Ramiro Ruiz, Konstantina Stavrianou, ish pursuits in favor of mature choices… The 60 Yard Line is all of these of five continents from the 1920s Rena Vougioukalou; Editor: Yibrán Asuad, introduces us to Strzeminski (Bo- things and more, but who are we kidding? Most importantly it’s the and 1930s. Born in Canada as Idris Juan Daniel Molero, José María Avilés; guslaw Linda) who lost an arm and Cast: Macarena Arias, Pablo Aguirre, Amaia movie that’s sooooo Wisconsin, it just had to have its world premiere Hall, Aloha was drawn to adventure a leg in WWI, as a charismatic and Merino; Cinematographer: Simon Brauer” here at the Wisconsin Film Festival - nothing else would have made and the thrill of traveling across un- influential force on his students in the SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL sense. This Green Bay Packers obsessed tale of life, love, and Lombardi, charted roads in faraway lands very CINEMA, NEW WOMEN DIRECTORS years following WWII. Soon, how- written and performed with comic aplomb by Ryan Churchill and Nick, early in life. In 1922, with her mother’s ever, his revolutionary writings and Alba is a richly textured portrayal tells the story of a guy who takes his wedding fund money and buys permission, the precocious 14-year- ideas about art run afoul of the Soviet of the interior life of a sensitive 11 a house next to Lambeau Field, where he can party hard, be a stone’s old left school in the south of France communist powers in Poland. Strze- year-old girl in Ecuador. When Alba’s throw from the team he loves, and compile stats ‘til the cows (literally) to answer a newspaper ad seeking a minski’s work has nothing to do with mother is hospitalized, she is sent off come home. Filled to the brim with amusing ‘Sconnie-centric one- secretary for a round-the-world ex- Stalin’s favored social realism and su- to live with her father, a much older liners, charming Packers cameos (including Mark Tauscher and John pedition. She joined the Work Around perficial positivism and soon he finds man who is all but a stranger to her. Kuhn) and shot on location in glorious Green Bay, The 60 Yard Line is a the World Educational Club, created himself blacklisted by galleries and as Though he is kind-hearted enough, rowdy, raucous, crowd-pleasing romp that will leave football and film- by self-proclaimed “Captain” Walter an instructor. Still idolized and sup- his awkward eccentricities make Alba loving cheeseheads shouting “Lights, Camera, Touchdown!” (BR) Wanderwell in 1919, which served to ported by his long-suffering daughter wary, and the two can barely forge promote the newly formed League and his former students, Strzeminski a connection. At school, she turns of Nations. Idris Hall took the stage refuses to acquiesce to the party inward, preferring to play imagina- name Aloha Wanderwell and become Street institutions whose misdeeds line, even when his health begins to tive games with insects than with known as “the world’s most traveled made the headlines and sunk the seriously decline. The committed, her more well-off classmates. One girl.” As Aloha crisscrossed 43 coun- economy. Instead, the district attor- transformative performance of Linda, day, an invitation to a party offers tries in a caravan of Ford Model Ts, ney’s office set its sights on Abacus star of many great Polish movies in- an opportunity for Alba to come out her 6-foot-tall stature and command- Federal Savings, a tiny, immigrant- cluding Kieslowski’s Blind Chance, is of her shell. Alba is the first feature ing personality quickly elevated her run bank in based in New York’s the embodiment of non-compromise. by precocious writer/director Ana role within the expedition to star and Chinatown that specialized in small Wajda’s Afterimage, completed when Cristina Barragán, who, though not lead ambassador. Learning the film- loans within its community. With a the director was 90, is a powerful, yet 30, has spent the past 10 years making craft along the way, she served total of six branches, Abacus was de- angry bookend to a major cinematic honing her craft with acclaimed short as camera assistant, cinematographer, cidedly not “too big to fail” – in fact, career that constantly examined the films. Her practice pays off with this editor, actress, screenwriter, inter- it hadn’t received any federal bail- intersection of art and politics. (JH) exceptionally detailed and empathetic Abacus: Small out money, and was only targeted preter, driver and negotiator. Aloha view of adolescence. “An authentic after reporting on one of their own and the crew filmed on 35mm nitrate coming-of-age film, truthful and sub- Enough to Jail employees taking bribes. Master camera negative stock and document- tle, heart-rending yet unsentimental” FRI, MAR 31 • 3:45 PM documentarian Steve James (Hoop ed such locales as Egypt’s Valley of the (FIPRESCI). Lions Award, Rotterdam Kings and the Taj Mahal, as well as SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 Dreams, Life Itself) takes us through Film Festival. Best First Film, Lima Abacus’s fraud trial, a gripping, such events as Polish army maneuvers Film Festival. (MK) SAT, APR 1 • 11:00 AM and a funeral procession in Peking. real-life David and Goliath saga that Presented with support from LACIS. SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 doubles as a resonant portrait of a There will be much more to see in this POST-SCREENINGS Q&A LED BY hardworking immigrant family. Run fun presentation, featuring live piano OPEN DOORS FOR REFUGEES by Shanghai-born founder Thomas by David Drazin, and expert commen- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary Shun and his three lively daughters, tary from Heather Linville, UW Madi- • USA • 2016 • DCP • 88 MIN son graduate and Film Preservationist Director: Steve James; Producer: Mark Abacus boasts the most sympathetic at the Academy Film Archive. (JH) Mitten, Julie Goldman, Gordon Quinn, and likeable movie bankers not Christopher Clements, Betsy Steinberg, played by Jimmy Stewart. Their Justine Nagan; Editor: David E. Simpson, John Farbrother; Cinematographer: Tom dedication to helping fellow immi- Bergmann; Music: Joshua Abrams grants get started in America makes KEY SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL this one case you might be rooting Wisconsin’s Own films DOCUMENTARIES for the bankers to win. 2016 New In the wake of the 2008 financial York Film Festival. (MK) Big Screens, Little Folks films Alike MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG crisis, the only US bank to face crim- Presented with support from 2016 Golden Badger winners 8 inal charges wasn’t any of the Wall Open Doors for Refugees. SEE: Shorter and Sweeter MARCH 30 - APRIL 6, 2017 A-B

Almost Sunrise Breathe In Breathe Out SAT, APR 1 • 4:30 PM SEE: Speaking in Tongues UNION SOUTH MARQUEE SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN 103 MIN Finding Home MEGAN MONDAY, BRIJETTA HALL SCHEDULED TO APPEAR Documentary • USA • 2016 • HD Projection • 5 MIN American Anarchist Director: Megan Monday, Brijetta Hall FRI, MAR 31 • 7:30 PM Waller; Producer: Megan Monday, Brijetta UW CINEMATHEQUE Hall Waller; Editor: Megan Monday, Brijetta Hall Waller; Cinematographer: Megan SUN, APR 2 • 1:00 PM Monday, Brijetta Hall Waller, Nelson Cho SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 Broken Lullaby After two deployments to Iraq, a young WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary female veteran struggles to discover At Eye Level SAT, APR 1 • 1:30 PM • USA • 2016 • DCP • 82 MIN CHAZEN MUSEUM OF ART happiness, connection, and purpose in Director: Charlie Siskel; Producer: Auf Augenhöhe her life. In this deeply personal, com- Charlie Siskel; Editor: Chris McKinley; SUN, APR 2 • 5:00 PM pelling profile, she finds meaningful Cinematographer: Nina Bernfeld FRI, MAR 31 • 1:00 PM CHAZEN MUSEUM OF ART SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL UNION SOUTH MARQUEE work and a supportive community at a SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Narrative DOCUMENTARIES veteran-run farm in Wisconsin. (MSJ) 102 MIN • USA • 1932 • 35mm • 75 MIN William Powell was just 19 years old Director: Ernst Lubitsch; Screenwriter: Samson Almost Sunrise when he wrote The Anarchist Cook- Daedalus and Icarus Raphaelson, Ernest Vajda, based on a play by Maurice Rostand; Producer: Ernst Lubitsch; book in 1971. Since the infamous book Animation • USA • 2016 • HD Projection • 5 MIN ANTHONY ANDERSON SCHEDULED TO APPEAR Cast: Phillips Holmes, Nancy Carroll, Lionel MADISON PREMIERE • Documentary • instructs readers how to create explo- Director: Crestwood Elementary School students; Screenwriter: Crestwood Elementary Barrymore, Zasu Pitts; Cinematographer: USA • 2016 • HD Projection • 98 MIN sives and weapons (among other dan- School students; Editor: Luke Bassuener; Cast: Crestwood Elementary School Victor Milner; Music: W. Franke Harling students; Music: Crestwood Elementary School students, Shawn Weber McMahon Director: Michael Collins; Producer: Marty gerous methods of social disruption), SECTION: RESTORATIONS Syjuco; Editor: Eric Metzgar; Cinematographer: it is frequently cited in connection The 4th grade classes of Madison’s Crestwood Elementary School AND REDISCOVERIES Clarissa de los Reyes; Music: Adam Crystal with horrific incidents of mass vio- teamed up to retell the classic Greek myth of Daedalus and Icarus, A rare departure into anti-war melo- Two Iraq veterans returning home to lence in the United States. In an ex- using block-print, paper-cut animation and a fresh, charming per- drama for the romantic comedy spe- Milwaukee, Tom Voss and Anthony tended interview just months before spective on a familiar tale. For their efforts, they’ve been awarded a cialist Ernst Lubitsch, Broken Lullaby Anderson, fight to recover from their Powell’s unexpected death in 2016, prestigious Golden Badger! (MSJ) (also known as The Man I Killed) is an haunting wartime experiences. As Charlie Siskel (Academy Award nomi- adaptation of a Maurice Rostand play, their intense struggles with moral nated director of Finding Vivian Ma- At Eye Level which also served as the source materi- injuries and depression begin to seem ier) uncovers the book’s history and Narrative • Germany • 2016 • DCP • German with English subtitles • 98 MIN al for another WFF selection this year, inescapable, even affecting their re- urges its author to candidly reflect François Ozon’s Frantz. Haunted by the lationships with friends and families, Director: Joachim Dollhopf, Evi Goldbrunner; Screenwriter: Joachim Dollhopf, on its impact. Powell initially resists Eva Goldbrauner, Nicole Armbruster; Producer: Christian Becker, Martin memory of Walter Holderin, a German they seek healing in a drastic way––by any revelation beyond his prior public Richter; Editor: Maja Stieghorst; Cast: Luis Vorbach, Jordan Prentice, solider he killed during WWI, French beginning a 2,700-mile walk from Mil- Ella Frey; Cinematographer: Jürgen Jürges; Music: David Ossa statements about the book, but this musician Paul (Phillips Holmes) trav- waukee to California. Along the way, SECTION: BIG SCREENS, LITTLE FOLKS, WISCONSIN’S OWN interview, like his career and personal els to Germany after the war to visit they encounter supporters who offer Eleven-year-old Michi lives in a children’s home, where he has to fight life, require him to directly confront Walter’s family. Paul tells Walter’s advice and encouragement, yet Tom, for respect every day. His biggest dream, to find his father, seems to his work and its effects. While Pow- father (Lionel Barrymore) that he was Anthony, and their families question come true when he discovers an unsent letter from his mother ad- ell has moved on from his troubling a friend and fellow schoolmate of Wal- whether they can ever truly heal. This dressed to Tom. But then he meets Tom – who happens to be a dwarf recommendations and philosophy, ter’s. As anti-French sentiment grows documentary examines the complex — and his fantasies turn into complex reality. When the kids find out, the book may be inescapable, with in the German village, Paul becomes a problems that face all veterans, but the Michi’s life becomes hell and he runs away. With nowhere to go, he consequences that refuse to remain in surrogate son of the Holderins and he personal experiences of Tom and An- moves in with Tom. As time passes, Tom and Michi discover they the past. Weaving the wide-ranging also finds himself falling in love with thony provide intimate perspectives have more in common than other sons and fathers and they form an interview footage with archival mate- Walter’s former fiancée (Nancy Car- on this pressing topic. Almost Sunrise unlikely bond. At Eye Level teaches us about forgiveness, letting go of rial from Powell’s life and the events roll). One of the most underrated of the ultimately offers hope in the power of friendships, and setting boundaries of trust and respect. Winner of honesty, reflection, and community, he might have influenced, Siskel’s Austrian émigré Lubitsch’s Hollywood numerous European awards. (KK) through the touching stories of two stubborn pursuit of honesty produces movies, Broken Lullaby is “sublime, one men learning to reconnect with them- a riveting, thought-provoking reflec- Presented with support from SSM Health of the most piercing and cinematically selves and their loved ones. (MSJ) tion on how people attempt to justify, supple of all of Lubitsch’s films” (Dave rectify, or even deny personal (and Kehr, Chicago Reader). (JH) Presented with support from (MSJ) Wisconsin Public Television. societal) mistakes. MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG

The Bear and the Owl Brown Girl Along the Steinke Basin American Zombies SEE: Portraits and Pictures Ben SEE: Portraits and Pictures SEE: Bugs SEE: Creepshow from Wisconsin’s Own SEE: From Mass to the Mountain from Wisconsin’s Own 9 B-C WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL

The Challenge SAT, APR 1 • 7:15 PM UW CINEMATHEQUE WED, APR 5 • 4:30 PM SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • France, Italy • 2016 • DCP • Arabic with English subtitles • 70 MIN Director: Yuri Ancarani; Producer: Christophe Gougeon, Fabrizio Polpettini, Pierre Clash Malachin, Tommaso Bertani; Editor: Yuri Eshtebak Ancarani; Cinematographer: Yuri Ancarani, Luca Nervegna, Jonathan Ricquebourg; SAT, APR 1 • 3:15 PM Music: Lorenzo Senni, Francesco Fantini SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARIES TUE, APR 4 • 8:45 PM When it comes to surreal spectacle, SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 there is no topping this stunningly pho- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • tographed documentary on falconry Egypt, France, Germany • 2016 • DCP • obsessives in Qatar. This gilded world, Arabic with English subtitles • 97 MIN where leashed cheetahs ride shotgun in Director: Mohamed Diab; Screenwriter: Khaled Diab, Mohamed Diab; Producer: Mohamed luxury sports cars and a cast of falcons Hefzy, Eric Lagesse, Moez Masoud; Editor: occupy every seat on a private jet, rivals Ahmed Hefez; Cast: Nelly Karim, Hany Adel, anything dreamed up by Matthew The Cinema Travellers Tarek Abdel Aziz, Mai El Ghaity, Mohaem El Sebaey; Cinematographer: Ahmed Gabr Barney. These sheikhs and their prized SAT, APR 1 • 5:00 PM SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA birds are converging in the Arabian UW CINEMATHEQUE Bugs Desert for a falconry competition that This exciting, smartly filmed drama MON, APR 3 • 1:00 PM is set in Cairo during the summer of SAT, APR 1 • 10:30 AM is unlike any sporting event you’ve ever SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 2013, two years after the Egyptian BARRYMORE THEATRE seen. Director Yuri Ancarani takes a non-judgmental, bird’s-eye view of this MIDWEST PREMIERE • Documentary revolution and immediately after the MON, APR 3 • 3:15 PM • India • 2016 • DCP • Hindi, Marathi ouster of Islamist President Morsi. 4,000 year-old sport, capturing its gold- with English subtitles • 96 MIN SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 plated pageantry in all its excess. The A police truck full of detained dem- Director: Shirley Abraham, Amit Madheshiya; onstrators of various political and 85 MIN artisanal fashioning of hoods for the Producer: Shirley Abraham, Amit Madheshiya; birds’ heads is a motif that circles back Editor: Shirley Abraham, Amit Madheshiya; religious backgrounds makes its way Along the Steinke Basin for an astounding sequence taken from Cinematographer: Amit Madheshiya through the city streets and a series of SAM KIRCHOFF SCHEDULED TO ATTEND a camera placed on a falcon in flight. “A SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL equally divergent and violent protests. DOCUMENTARIES WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Experimental • USA • 2016 • HD Projection • 11 MIN fascinating convergence between eth- Enduring one obstacle and trial after The “cinema travellers” of the title Director: Sam Kirchoff; Cinematographer: Sam Kirchoff nography, style-magazine reportage and another, the detainees realize they are itinerant 35mm film projec- SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN art-video surrealism, shot in opulent must overcome their differences to tionists who set up makeshift tent stand a chance of survival. In what is The intricate beauty of the insect world is often overlooked when shades of desert gold” (Film Comment). Special Jury Prize, 2016 Locarno Film cinemas on a circuit of towns and only his second feature, director Mo- walking through Wisconsin forests admiring the colossal trees and villages in the most remote parts of Festival. 2017 SXSW Film Festival. (MK) hammed Diab displays an inventive the foliage. This precise elegance of the smaller world hidden in open India. For more than 70 years, the command of the medium by limiting view is present at all times while watching Along the Steinke Basin. tent cinemas have brought the joy of the audience’s perspective to that of Tiny creatures dominate the world of the miniature and captivate the movies to people of all ages, but for the principal characters inside the frames of this experimental documentary. (KJ) the group of showmen depicted here, police van. Through his claustropho- the end of an era seems imminent: bically rigorous technique and superb Bugs prints are getting harder to come by handling of actors, Diab expertly WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • Denmark • 2016 • DCP • 74 MIN and the equipment they have, includ- captures the chaos, as well as mo- Director: Andreas Johnsen; Producer: Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær; Editor: ing their rusted out truck, might ments of humanity, in this look at the Menno Boerema; Cinematographer: Andreas Johnsen fail them at any moment. We watch sometimes suffocating air of political SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARIES in suspense as the projectionists, upheaval. 2016 Cannes, London and The foodie movie to end all foodie movies, this fantastically entertain- determined that the show must go Torino Film Festivals. (JH) ing documentary serves up a delicacy not found on any local menus… on, find all sorts of miraculous ways Presented with support from the yet. As the global population exponentially increases, experts have Christina to get their vehicle in gear and get African Studies Program. begun proposing insects as a miracle solution: an environmentally SEE: Speaking in Tongues the moving pictures on the screens friendly protein source capable of feeding the world. Enter Ben Reade inside the tents. Once that happens, and Josh Evans. As Head Chef and Lead Researcher of iconic restau- the rapturous faces of the viewers rant Noma’s Nordic Food Lab, these two are on a crusade to make (shown in lovely stills photographed bugs not just edible and green, but delicious. Exploring where ento- by co-director Amit Madheshiya) mology meets gastronomy, the charismatic duo scours the globe for let us know it’s all been worth it. A exotic invertebrates, buzzing between Mexico, Uganda, Japan, Peru, gorgeous, beautifully photographed and many points between. The species they uncover are jaw-dropping elegy for the death of traditional film to behold; in Reade’s hands, they soon become mouth-watering, as projection, The Cinema Travellers is well. Your stomach will growl for grasshopper ravioli, maggot cheese a perfect film festival movie in the gelato, and bee larva ceviche. But as the concept of entomophagy inch- simple way that it reminds you of es towards the mainstream and insect-munching tradeshows begin to the power of the medium, no matter bloom, Ben and Josh’s idealism faces the nagging question of who will where you are in the world. (JH) Cliff, Superfan! ultimately profit of off this new diet. (MK) Christmas Trees SEE: Portraits and Pictures MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG Presented with support from The SEE: Wigilia Center for South Asia from Wisconsin’s Own 10 MARCH 30 - APRIL 6, 2017 C

Last Chance JOE CAHILL SCHEDULED TO APPEAR WORLD PREMIERE • Narrative • USA • 2016 • HD Projection • 15 MIN Director: Oswaldo Martinez; Screenwriter: Joseph Cahill; Producer: Joseph Cahill, Robin Lin; Editor: Daniel Santana; Cast: Dylan Kleinschmidt, Joseph Cahill, Ceili Cordero, Olivia Marie, Craig Olson; Cinematographer: Oswaldo Martinez Joe Cahill’s dark tale about the bonds of brotherhood stretched to the limit Cloudberry will get under your skin. (BR) SEE: Shorter and Sweeter American Zombies JOE BOWES SCHEDULED TO APPEAR MADISON PREMIERE • Narrative • USA Contemporary Color • 2016 • HD Projection • 9 MIN The Colorado Director: Joe Bowes; Cast: Eve Cusack, SAT, APR 1 • 2:45 PM Jack Coakley, Todd Snethen, Lisa SUN, APR 2 • 4:00 PM Kendall, Peter Murphy, Jake Viaene BARRYMORE THEATRE UNION SOUTH MARQUEE A zombie dad just wants an elegant, SUN, APR 2 • 8:15 PM Q&A WITH DIRECTOR MURAT healthy family dinner, but his zombie EYUBOGLU AFTER THE SCREENING SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 family can’t seem to relax and enjoy MIDWEST PREMIERE • Documentary WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA • 2016 • DCP • 97 MIN the fresh humans. It’s Make Room for • USA • 2016 • DCP • 91 MIN Director: Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross; Producer: Josh Penn, Michael Gottwald, Dan Daddy meets Dawn of the Dead, as the Director: Murat Eyuboglu; Screenwriter: Janvey, David Byrne; Editor: Bill Ross IV; Cinematographer: Jarred Alterman; Music: Christa Sadler; Producer: Natalia Schwien; David Byrne, Lucius, Nico Muhly, Ira Glass, Nelly Furtado, St. Vincent, Devonte zombies grunt and growl their way Editor: David Sarno; Cinematographer: Hynes, How to Dress Well, Zola Jesus, AD-Rock, Money Mark, tUnE-yArDs through a good old-fashioned family Sylvestre Campe; Music: John Luther Adams, SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARIES conflict. (MSJ) Roomful of Teeth, Paola Prestini, William Brittelle, Glenn Kotche, Shara Worden Indie luminaries St. Vincent, David Byrne, tUnE-yArDs, Ad-Rock, SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL Devonté Hynes, Zola Jesus, and more provide the music for this ec- Fate of Heart DOCUMENTARIES static concert film—the equally sensational visuals are courtesy of JENNA WILCOX AND DANIEL KINNEY SCHEDULED TO APPEAR Murat Eyuboglu’s immersive environ- high-school color-guard troops from across the US. Anyone who’s seen mental documentary examines the WORLD PREMIERE • Narrative • USA Stop Making Sense knows David Byrne has a genius for fusing live music • 2016 • HD Projection • 17 MIN history and ecology of the magnificent with visual spectacle. Contemporary Color is his latest vision: a mega- Director: Daniel Kinney; Screenwriter: Colorado River, unveiling its complex concert at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center that puts a who’s who of avant- Daniel Kinney; Producer: Jenna Wilcox; relationship with humankind. This pop onstage, while giving the dance floor over to their teenaged costars. Cast: Jake Penner, Angela Campbell tale of the persistent efforts to fight The kids go all out, waving brightly colored flags and strutting with Star-crossed lovers reunite after and control the Colorado involves impressive choreography. This joyous, eccentric celebration is vividly years apart, but will they forge a new European explorers’ encounters with captured by documentary vanguards Bill and Turner Ross (Western, beginning or bring an end to all they the river, more recent projects like the WFF 2015), who create a bedazzling cinematic experience that builds know? (BR) Hoover Dam, and pressing issues of to psychedelic crescendos. Between acts, we’re treated to charming Cock of the Air agriculture, immigration, and climate mini-profiles of the color guard teams, and whisked backstage to wit- UFO Days change. With stunning footage of the ness everyone’s awestruck wonder at the absurd beauty they are help- QUINN ELSE SCHEDULED TO APPEAR SUN, APR 2 • 1:00 PM landscapes the river has carved and ing to create. An all-inclusive, arty ode to letting your freak flag fly, Narrative • USA • 2016 • DCP • 8 MIN UW CINEMATHEQUE the wildlife it supports, Eyuboglu Contemporary Color is both danceable and inspirational. (MK) Director: Quinn Else; Screenwriter: Quinn ACADEMY FILM ARCHIVE FILM traces the impacts of pollution and Else; Producer: JJ Murphy, Erik Gunneson, PRESERVATIONIST HEATHER LINVILLE other modern activity on this vital Eric Rhiel; Editor: Quinn Else; Cast: Eric Rhiel, WILL INTRODUCE THE SCREENING Bill Johnson; Cinematographer: Nina Ham natural wonder, an overused resource Gags SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Narrative in crisis. Actor Mark Rylance’s reflec- An enigmatic, strangely familiar man • USA • 1932 • DCP • 80 MIN tive narration introduces the various ADAM KRAUSE SCHEDULED TO APPEAR attends the annual UFO Days celebra- Director: Tom Buckingham; Screenwriter: sections of this environmental study, MADISON PREMIERE • Narrative • USA tion in a small Wisconsin town. The Robert E. Sherwood, Charles Lederer; • 2016 • HD Projection • 16 MIN Producer: Howard Hughes; Editor: W. Duncan but Eyuboglu allows the remarkable mysterious story combines impres- Director: Adam Krause; Screenwriter: Adam Mansfield; Cast: Chester Morris, Billie Dove, images to dominate the viewer’s ex- sive, otherworldly effects and the Matt Moore, Walter Catlett, Luis Alberni, Krause; Producer: Adam Krause; Editor: Katya Sergeiva, Yola d’Avril; Cinematographer: perience through extended sequences Adam Krause; Cast: Cory Estreen, Taylor real-life atmosphere of Elmwood, WI Lucien N. Andriot; Music: Alfred Newman of the unique terrain around the river Huff, Ashley Magnin, Heather Koehler, Eric (the UFO capital of the Midwest) for Heuvelman; Cinematographer: DJ Kast SECTION: RESTORATIONS (and even beneath its surface). The an eerie, regional spin on sci-fi story- AND REDISCOVERIES innovative music, commissioned from News reports of spooky, silent clowns telling. (MSJ) Producer Howard Hughes combined five composers, guides us through haunting American streets have two of his principal interests—one of this journey alongside the fascinating become familiar in the last year, but Unbuttoned them was airplanes—for this amaz- images, shifting and transforming three friends in Green Bay finally find MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • USA ingly raunchy comedy set in Europe as the story of the river is revealed. WISCONSIN’S OWN SPOOKIEST out what their resident creepy clown • 2016 • HD Projection • 8 MIN during World War I, with Chester Elegiac, passionate, and beautiful, The actually wants in this terrifying, in- Director: T.C. DeWitt; Screenwriter: T.C. De Witt; ventive found-footage short. (MSJ) Producer: Chad Halvorsen, Cory Kaseman, Ali Morris as an American pilot with an Colorado is a stark reminder that our Creepshow Bahr, T.C. De Witt; Editor: Chad Halvorsen; Cast: international reputation as a wom- relationship with nature demands SAT, APR 1 • 9:30 PM Marion Araujo, David Geisler, Chike Johnson, anizer and Billie Dove as a French balance. (MSJ) Youth T.C. De Witt, Chad Halvorsen; Cinematographer: UNION SOUTH MARQUEE Jon Kline; Cinematographer: Jordan Post actress determined to teach him a BRETT MARTY SCHEDULED TO APPEAR Presented with support from FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO APPEAR A playful, perverse take on the old lesson. Upon the film’s re-release, Terra Incognita Art Series. MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • Hughes tried but failed to sneak the 91 MIN USA • 2016 • DCP • 16 MIN “press this button and you’ll get a MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG film past the censorship office and SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN, SHORTS SERIES Director: Brett Marty; Screenwriter: Brett Marty, million dollars, but someone will die” Amelia Whitcomb, Josh Izenberg; Producer: scenario. (BR) was forced to cut nearly two reels of Come hide under your seat with us Josh Izenberg; Cast: Jessica Stroup, George footage; this restoration of the origi- while we unspool seven shorts de- Maguire; Cinematographer: James Laxton nal release version from the Academy signed to make shivers run down your In the not too distant future, the Film Archive includes much of the spine. Meet an incredibly unfriendly cure for aging has been discovered... censored imagery and uses newly clown, try to avoid two serial-killing provided you have the money to recorded dialogue to fill in lines re- brothers, sidle up to a Wisconsin based spend on the procedure. When a moved from the surviving soundtrack. alien, have dinner with a family of couple begin the process of becom- Academy Film Archive Film Preser- zombies, be a fly on the wall with the ing young again, they face questions vationist and UW Madison graduate world’s most star-crossed lovers, take a of mortality and love. Are we meant Heather Linville will discuss Cock of trip to the near future and sip from the to stay with the same person for- the Air’s restoration before the screen- Connie fountain of youth, but whatever you ever? Does forever mean 50 years or ing. (JH) SEE: Speaking in Tongues do, Don’t. Press. That. Button! (MSJ) 500 years? (KJ) 11 C-D WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL

passionate, independent 49 year-old woman who knows what she wants. She met her fiancée Scott at a social group for neurologically diverse adults, and when she asks him to move into her apartment in suburban Philadel- phia, there are certain expectations. The two are deeply infatuated with one another, but Dina craves affection Scott finds difficult to give. As their wed- ding approaches, they negotiate how to Daedelus and Icarus A Decent Woman share their lives. Filmmakers Dan Sick- les and Antonio Santini have crafted an SEE: At Eye Level Los Decentes unforgettably rich and understanding FRI, MAR 31 • 1:30 PM portrait of coupledom. Like any lasting SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 relationship, this clear-eyed and can- did film is often very funny and very SAT, APR 1 • 2:45 PM serious within the same conversation. The Crowd UW CINEMATHEQUE The filmmaking itself is wondrously el- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • egant, each scene a lovingly composed SUN, APR 2 • 3:00 PM Argentina, Austria, South Korea • 2016 • DCP single shot in which Dina, Scott, and UW CINEMATHEQUE • Spanish with English subtitles • 100 MIN Director: Lukas Valenta Rinner; Screenwriter: their friends navigate the universal SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Narrative • USA • 1928 • 35mm • 98 MIN Lukas Valenta Rinner, Ana Godoy, Martin Shanly, anxieties and elations of romance. (MK) Director: King Vidor; Screenwriter: King Vidor, John V.A. Weaver, Joe Ariel Gurevich; Producer: Lukas Valenta Rinner, Farnham; Editor: Hugh Wynn; Cast: Eleanor Boardman, James Murray, Ana Godoy; Editor: Ana Godoy; Cast: Martin Bert Roach, Estelle Clark; Cinematographer: Henry Sharp Shanly, Iride Mockert, Andrea Strenitz, Mariano SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND REDISCOVERIES Sayavedra; Cinematographer: Roman Kasseroller Director King Vidor’s supreme masterpiece is an Everyman tale of life SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA and love in the big city among the faceless crowds. The protagonists A mild-mannered maid in an up- are John (James Murray) and Mary (Eleanor Boardman) who fall in per class Buenos Aires suburb finds love on a blind date, immediately get married, and discover the heart- herself joining the nudist colony next break and hardships, financial and otherwise, of trying to raise a fam- Dark Night door. Belén spends her days scrubbing ily in New York City. Raised to believe that their big dreams of wealth down an already gleaming modern- and security would come true, John and Mary fight against being de- SAT, APR 1 • 9:00 PM ist house for owners who are rarely personalized by the rat race in the dizzying metropolis. With gliding UW CINEMATHEQUE home. While pruning an immaculate camera movements, marvelous New York locations and impressive, MADISON PREMIERE • Narrative • wall-sized hedge, she peers over the Divided We Fall USA • 2016 • DCP • 90 MIN stylized sets, Vidor’s vision of one couple’s struggle becomes a fully re- top and discovers a bunch of naked SUN, APR 2 • 11:00 AM alized silent-era gem that belongs in the same class as Murnau’s Sun- Director: Tim Sutton; Screenwriter: Tim people, idly hanging out in the sun. Sutton; Producer: Alexandra Byer; Editor: BARRYMORE THEATRE rise. Originally conceived as a sequel to Vidor’s 1925 war drama The Before long, Belén is spending all her Jeanne Applegate; Cast: Robert Jumper, KATHERINE ACOSTA SCHEDULED TO APPEAR Big Parade, the director continued John and Mary’s story in his early Anna Rose Hopkins, Rosie Rodriguez, free time on the other side of the fence, 94 MIN talkie Our Daily Bread. Nominated for Best Picture and Best Director Karina Macias, Aaron Purvis, Marilyn in the buff with her new community Purvis, Ciara Hampton, Andres Vega, Bryce SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN Oscars, The Crowd will be shown from a 35mm archival print courtesy Hampton, Eddie Cacciola; Cinematographer: of tantric new-agers. The tension Library of Congress. Live piano by David Drazin. (JH) Hélène Louvart; Music: Maica Armata between fastidious societal order and This is Happening Now SECTION: AMERICAN VISIONS groovy naturalism becomes too much WORLD PREMIERE • Documentary • With three highly acclaimed fea- for a simple fence to bear, and things USA • 2016 • HD Projection • 4 MIN whose wife, Elisabeth (Signoret) tures in the past five years—Pavilion, start getting a lot less neighborly. This Director: Aaron Granat; Editor: Aaron learns of her husband’s affair with Abi- Memphis (WFF 2014), and, now, Dark dry satire is delivered with a deadpan Granat; Cinematographer: Aaron Granat; Music: Aaron Granat gail, a 17-year-old working for the mar- Night - UW alum Tim Sutton has es- precision that recalls the work of Yor- ried couple. When Elisabeth expels tablished himself as one of the most gos Lanthimos (The Lobster). “Rinner Aaron Granat’s Madison-based vi- Abigail from her home the young girl rigorously formal American indie has the timing and framing instincts sual essay compares and contrasts the local reaction to Barack Obama’s accuses Elisabeth of witchcraft and filmmakers working today. In all his of a widescreen cartoon gagman… a 2008 electoral victory with Donald manipulates younger girls to support films, Sutton employs an elliptical, total blast” (Filmmaker Magazine). (MK) Trump’s 2016 win. (BR) her claims of seeing spirits. The town’s understated style that deliberately minister and politicians, looking to eschews plot in favor of combining Divided We Fall increase their power, support the ac- images, sounds, and music into a more cusations as well. Soon, Elisabeth and purely cinematic experience. Dark Documentary • USA • 2016 • DCP • 90 MIN John are fighting for their lives and Night, which references the Aurora, Director: Katherine M Acosta; Screenwriter: The Crucible Katherine M Acosta; Producer: Celso Acosta, only a confession of guilt to the tribu- Colorado shooting, begins in the Katherine M Acosta, Richard Acklin; Editor: Les sorcières de Salem nal will save them. Miller, of course, aftermath of an atrocity. Sutton cre- Gretta Wing Miller; Cast: Peter Barca, Marty wrote his play as a reaction to the Beil, Michael Billeaux, Katherine Cramer, Frank SUN, APR 2 • 7:30 PM ates snapshots of various characters Emspak, Brett Hulsey, William P Jones, Matthew SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 anti-communist hysteria of the 1950s in Sarasota, Florida on a single day Kearney, Chris Larson, Rahul Mahajan, John and the witch hunts of the House Un- prior to the event. The placidity of Matthews, Phil Neuenfeldt, Matthew Rothschild, TUE, APR 4 • 3:00 PM Harriet Rowan, Charity Schmidt, Barbara American Activities Committee. Stars certain suburban scenes is punctu- Vedder, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field; Music: Ida Jo SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 Signoret and Montand were married ated by loud, unexpected shouts and Dina In 2011, Wisconsin’s state Capitol in SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Narrative in real-life and members of the French screams—real and imaginary—that Madison was filled with people pro- • France • 1957 • DCP • French with communist party who participated in English subtitles • 146 MIN hint at a latent violence that hovers FRI, MAR 31 • 4:30 PM testing the Act 10 bill. The Wisconsin the efforts to save accused spies Julius over the film at every turn. The haunt- Director: Raymond Roleau; Screenwriter: Jean- SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 Uprising made local and national and Ethel Rosenberg. They immedi- ing score by Canadian singer and mu- Paul Sartre, based on the play by Arthur Miller; MON, APR 3 • 5:45 PM news as concerned citizens - union Producer: Raymond Borderie; Editor: Marguerite ately began plans for a French film ver- sician Maica Armata adds to the sense members, students, and families –oc- Renoir; Cast: Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, sion of The Crucible after it opened on SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 Mylène Demongeot, Jean Debucourt, Raymond of palpable dread, as the film builds cupied the Capitol in the largest sus- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary Roleau, Michel Piccoli; Cinematographer: Broadway in 1953 and they hired Jean- ever so slowly toward its conclusion. • USA • 2017 • DCP • 101 MIN tained protest in U.S. history. Katha- Claude Renoir; Music: Georges Auric Paul Sartre to translate Miller’s dia- Like Gus Van Sant’s Elephant (2003), Director: Dan Sickles, Antonio Santini; Producer: rine Acosta’s captivating documentary SECTION: RESTORATIONS logue and write the screenplay. Power- Dark Night never tries to explain the Dan Sickles, Antonio Santini; Editor: Sofia knits together news reports, real-time AND REDISCOVERIES fully acted and vividly realized with behavior of the characters we witness, Subercaseaux; Cinematographer: Adam Uhl amateur footage, and in-depth inter- The first big-screen version of Arthur spare, black and white cinematogra- but Sutton brilliantly manages to cap- SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL views with scholars, politicians, and Miller’s play is an all-French produc- phy by Claude Renoir, The Crucible was ture the texture of a culture obsessed DOCUMENTARIES protestors, presenting viewers with a tion starring two of international given a very limited release in the U.S. with guns through meticulously The greatest love story to grace this clear-eyed investigation into the many cinemas biggest luminaries, Simone and has not been screened anywhere observed details, shot by veteran cin- year’s festival is the true one found in factors behind the protest— what hap- Signoret and Yves Montand. Set in in nearly 60 years! It has now been ematographer Hélène Louvart (Agnes this outstanding documentary, which pened, what went wrong, and how

MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG Salem in 1692, the story begins at the given a digital restoration from Pathé Varda’s The Beaches of Agnès). 2016 won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2017 revisiting these events matters in a 12 farm home of John Proctor (Montand) and the Cineteca di Bologna. (JH) Sundance Film Festival. (JJM) Sundance Film Festival. Dina is a post-2016 election America. (KJ) MARCH 30 - APRIL 6, 2017 D-F

country life. After inheriting a vast Marty stretch of rural land on the border SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Narrative between Romania and Ukraine from • USA • 1955 • 35mm • 91 MIN a grandfather he hardly knew, city- Director: Delbert Mann; Screenwriter: Paddy living Roman goes to visit his new Chayefsky; Producer: Harold Hecht; Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Karen Steele, Joe Mantell, property. His plan is to sell the land Esther Minciotti, Jerry Paris; Cinematographer: but Hogas, the phlegmatic neighbor- Joseph LaShelle; Music: Roy Webb hood policeman, reveals to Roman SECTION: RESTORATIONS that Grandpa was a fearsome local AND REDISCOVERIES boss and that control of the business is “Whatever it is women like, I ain’t got now in the hands of a dangerous man, it.” The usually gruff Ernest Borgnine, Dogs Samir. As Roman finds his plans clash- The Dundee Project in his Academy Award-winning role, ing with Samir’s, the city lad becomes is cast against type as a sensitive and Câini SEE: Transmissions from a witness to an endless feud between mild-mannered butcher in a decidedly the Heartland SAT, APR 1 • 5:45 PM local gangsters and the police. Using a unglamorous Bronx Italian neighbor- SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 slow-burning style that borrows from hood who finds a kindred soul in a MON, APR 3 • 1:30 PM classic crime movies and Westerns, di- Drifting Towards bookish school teacher (Betsy Blair). SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 rector Bogdan Mirica has made a star- Paddy Chayefsky’s Oscar-winning tling feature directorial debut that also the Crescent screenplay, celebrated for its authentic MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • employs a healthy dose of gallows hu- portraits of working-class people, was Romania • 2016 • DCP • Romanian WED, APR 5 • 8:00 PM with English subtitles • 104 MIN mor. Ultimately, as Barbara Scharres an adaptation of Chayefsky’s live play SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 Director: Bogdan Mirica; Screenwriter: writes at RogerEbert.com, “this is not for television. In an era of extravagant Bogdan Mirica; Producer: Elie Meirovitz, a gangster film in the expected sense, 88 MIN Hollywood spectacles, this low-bud- Marcela Ursu; Editor: Roxana Szel; Cast: but a waiting game that moves with Dragos Bucur, Gheorghe Visu, Vlad Ivanov, Ralph get gem also won the Oscar for Best Costel Cascaval, Constantin Cojocaru; deliberation to reveal the broader pic- Picture. (JH) • Experimental • Cinematographer: Andrei Butica WORLD PREMIERE ture of a relentlessly cruel way of life.” USA • 2017 • HD Projection • 8 MIN SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA 2016 Cannes and Torino Film Festi- Director: Bill Bedford A simmering thriller, Dogs offers a vals. 2017 International Film Festival SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN sometimes nightmarish scenario for Rotterdam and Film Comment Selects, Bill Bedford’s experimental short (one urban dwellers who prefer to avoid Film Society of Lincoln Center. (JH) of two in this year’s Festival) explores the sensations of railroad travel with a hypnotic mix of sound, light, color, and rhythmic patterns. (BR) Drifting Towards the Crescent LAURA STEWART SCHEDULED TO APPEAR WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary Ernest Borgnine • USA • 2017 • DCP • 80 MIN on the Bus + Marty Director: Laura Stewart; Producer: Laura Stewart, Zoe Sua Cho; Editor: Zoe Sua SAT, APR 1 • 8:15 PM Cho; Cast: Amanda C. Pope, Elizabeth K. CHAZEN MUSEUM OF ART Campbell, Rick Smith, Joseph Le Jeune, Karen Fake Jewels Ackerson; Cinematographer: Zoe Sua Cho, Carrie Graham; Music: Carolyn Stewart Ernest Borgnine on the Bus SEE: Speaking in Tongues SECTION: AMERICAN VISIONS, SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Documentary WISCONSIN’S OWN • USA • 1997 • HD Projection • 51 MIN Director and Wisconsin native Laura Director: Jeff Krulik Stewart (Shooter and Whitley, WFF SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND 2013) profiles a unique way of life in REDISCOVERIES, WISCONSIN’S OWN this fascinating documentary about In honor of the centennial of the great people living in river towns on the character actor Ernest Borgnine Mississippi River. Marking its journey (1917-2012), we present this charming from the North to the South, the river and hilarious record of the Oscar- The Donor passes through Hannibal, Missouri winning film and TV star’s travels (childhood home of Mark Twain and across the American Midwest during FRI, MAR 31 • 2:15 PM inspiration for much of his fiction), the summer of 1995. Piloting his own SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 where changing industries devital- 500 horsepower, fully loaded RV bus SUN, APR 2 • 1:30 PM ized this town and many others in the christened “Sunbum,” Borgnine, then SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 time since they were on crucial ship- 78-years-old, is shown visiting rest NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE • Narrative • China • 2016 • ping routes. From mushroom hunting stops, breweries (including Milwau- DCP • Mandarin with English subtitles • 105 MIN to country music concerts, the locals kee’s Miller Inn) and shoe factories. Fate of Heart Director: Zang Qiwu; Screenwriter: Qin Haiyan, Li Xiaobing; Producer: reveal their daily lives to Stewart, in Accompanied by his 26-year-old SEE: Creepshow Geng Wang, Wang Ying; Editor: Liao Qingsong; Cast: Ni Dahong, Qi Dao, Li a setting full of distinctive attitudes son Cris, Borgnine is captured in Zhen, Zhang Hang, Zhang Chen; Cinematographer: Dong Jingsong and behaviors. As one man states his element experiencing the “joy SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA under the dim lighting of a dive bar, of travelling” and greeting the citi- Yang Ba, a semi-retired man of modest means, is finding it increasingly where he claims every patron carries zens of Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska and difficult to keep his home from being demolished and to keep up with a gun: “Hunt, fish, drink, fight––it’s a Wisconsin. As he does in his classic his son’s school expenses. Desperate, Yang Ba agrees to sell one of his river town.” The town’s inhabits offer Heavy Metal Parking Lot, documen- MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG kidneys to the wealthy and gently persuasive Li Daguo, whose mortal- nostalgic accounts of a more lawless tary director Jeff Krulik is captur- ly-ill sister will benefit from the transaction. Yang Ba realizes he has past, guiding us through vacant build- ing his subject simply as he is. What made a Faustian bargain when the operation fails and Li Daguo tries ings with tales of debauchery. Drifting Borgnine has in common with the to convince him to give up one of his son’s kidneys. Soon, persuasion Towards the Crescent weaves these big-haired heroes of HMPL is his will- turns into open threats and Yang Ba finds himself defending his fam- stories of the river town’s history and ingness to share his happiness and his ily any way he can. Deliberately, mesmerizingly paced, The Donor is a character with personal anecdotes philosophies for achieving that joie de tense drama set in a world of economic uncertainty. Though it is told from the people who take pride in car- vivre. Borgnine’s voyages by bus, he on a small scale, it nonetheless delivers an enormous emotional payoff. ing about each other, their home, and believes, are largely responsible for It marks the feature directorial debut of Zang Qiwu, former assistant their work. From bikers to nightclub his longevity, and he implores us to do to Zhang Yimou. Winner of the International Feature Competition at owners, Stewart’s subjects create a the same: “You’ll last longer!” He may the 2016 Torino Film Festival, where the jury declared they had “found singular sense of place in this cap- be on to something, since the beer- Finding Home a new voice in Chinese cinema that we will all be enriched from.” (JH) tivating portrait of a region holding bellied Borgnine lived to the mighty SEE: Almost Sunrise tight to its identity. (MSJ) age of 95. (JH) 13 F WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL

director Maya Zinshtein was a fly on the wall inside Jerusalem’s 80-year- old Beitar Football Club in 2012 when Arcadi Gaydamak, the billionaire Russian owner of the struggling team, made the provocative move of bringing in two Muslim players from Chechnya. Beitar’s most extreme fan club, known as La Familia, take pride in supporting the only team in the Israeli Premier League that Forever Pure has never fielded an Arab player. The Freedom to Marry Tehora la’ad The Chechen players receive death SUN, APR 2 • 3:00 PM threats and Beitar’s team captain is Fraud FRI, MAR 31 • 5:00 PM SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 shut down when he calls for toler- SUN, APR 2 • 8:30 PM SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 ance from the fans. Eventually, La TUE, APR 4 • 1:00 PM SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 SUN, APR 2 • 11:00 AM Familia turns against their own team SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 WED, APR 5 • 8:45 PM SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 and leads a successful boycott of the MIDWEST PREMIERE • Documentary live games. Israel’s leaders have both SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 • USA • 2016 • DCP • 86 MIN • Documentary • WISCONSIN PREMIERE Director: Eddie Rosenstein; Producer: Ireland, Israel, Norway, UK • 2016 • DCP • ignored and supported the increas- 67 MIN Eddie Rosenstein, Jenni Olson, Amie From Mass to Hebrew with English subtitles • 87 MIN ingly powerful La Familia, even Segal; Editor: Pilar Rico; Cinematographer: Director: Maya Zinshtein; Producer: Geoff when they adopt the slogan “Forever I Turn to Jello Bob Richman, Claudia Raschke the Mountain Arbourne, Maya Zinshtein; Editor: Justine Pure” and spectators at the games Narrative • USA • 2016 • DCP • 15 MIN SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL Wright, Noam Amit; Cinematographer: Sergei SAT, APR 1 • 12:30 PM Director: Andrew Betzer; Screenwriter: DOCUMENTARIES Freedman, Yaniv Linton, Ross McDonnell joyously chant “we are the most rac- UW CINEMATHEQUE ist team.” Forever Pure, seemingly a Andrew Betzer; Producer: Eric Nyari, Andrew SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL Betzer; Editor: Andrew Betzer; Cast: Eleanore In his detailed look at the Supreme 79 MIN DOCUMENTARIES, NEW WOMEN DIRECTORS movie about a soccer team, ultimate- Pienta; Cinematographer: Daniel Houdin Court case that legalized same-sex SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN A riveting sports documentary ly morphs into an urgent look at how SECTION: AMERICAN VISIONS marriage in all fifty states in June oppression and a violent mob mental- that also charts the disturbing rise After botching her audition, a ner- 2015, director Eddie Rosenstein Ben ity can take root. (JH) to power of a far-right nationalist vous cellist asks for another chance. uncovers the densely layered forces WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • organization in Israel, Forever Pure Presented with support from the And another. And another… 2016 New at work in this hard-fought victory, USA • 2016 • HD Projection • 13 MIN Middle East Studies Program through the eyes of the activists, law- Director: Zack Baddorf; Editor: Romeo is first-rate filmmaking. First-time York Film Festival. (MK) yers, and other dedicated people at D’Costa; Cast: Ben Ballweg Fraud the center of the historic lawsuit. This Ben is adrift in a rudderless life. He behind-the-scenes account of the 102 feels unappreciated training teachers MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • USA • 2016 • DCP • 52 MIN days preceding the Supreme Court in Haiti, work that should give him Director: Dean Fleischer-Camp; Producer: hearing takes viewers from the busy purpose and satisfaction. A modern Sebastian Pardo, Riel Roch-Decter, Dean New York offices of advocacy groups tale of a life struggling for meaning, Fleischer-Camp; Editor: Jonathan Rippon to the Michigan home of plaintiffs Ben chronicles the journey of a rest- SECTION: AMERICAN VISIONS in the case, showing the variety of less soul as he weaves in and out of Without a doubt the year’s wildest motivations, experiences, and respon- careers, never settling, struggling to cinematic ride, Fraud is a blazing fast sibilities needed to mount a massive determine what comes next. (KJ) mindbender that forges its own new national campaign for policy change. genre: the found footage crime thrill- Rosenstein’s main subject, Evan Wolf- From Mass to the Mountain er. Between 2008 and 2015, a real-life son, worked toward marriage equality KURT SENSENBRENNER AND COLIN working class family uploaded over a for over thirty years and founded the SYTSMA SCHEDULED TO APPEAR hundred hours of their everyday lives advocacy organization Freedom to MADISON PREMIERE • Documentary • Marry, allowing him to provide an USA • 2016 • HD Projection • Spanish to YouTube. Through some masterful with English subtitles • 66 MIN sleight of hand in the editing room, intimate perspective on the history Director: Kurt Sensenbrenner, Colin Sytsma; director Dean Fleischer-Camp bril- of the movement. His colleagues and Producer: Kurt Sensenbrenner; Cast: liantly weaves this banal footage into other crucial figures in the fight like Father Wally “Padre Pablo” Kasuboski a pulp odyssey that plunges straight civil rights lawyer Mary Bonauto, who For twenty-eight years, Ripon, Wis- into capitalism’s dark heart. Weekend argued the plaintiffs’ case in the Su- consin Catholic priest, Wally Kasu- Frantz getaways and endless trips to big box preme Court, offer insight into their boski, has lived in eastern Panama. SAT, APR 1 • 8:15 PM stores lead them to debt and despera- stress and fear leading to the culmi- His mission is to bring sustainable, SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 tion, exposing America’s consumerist nation of their exhausting work, but safe drinking water to the impover- they also demonstrate the inspiring WED, APR 5 • 3:00 PM addictions and narcissist impulses ished community. Both uplifting and from within. Before you know it, this tenacity they needed to win. Rosen- down-to-earth, this documentary SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 normal family is on the run from the stein blends in-depth interviews with follows Father Wally, aka Padre Pablo, WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • France, Germany • 2016 • law. Exploding the rules of documen- observation of his subjects (and some DCP • French, German with English subtitles • 113 MIN as he organizes a team of Panamanian tary, this exhilarating metafiction is of their opponents), as they frantically and imported-from-Wisconsin con- Director: François Ozon; Screenwriter: François Ozon; Producer: Eric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer, Stefan Arndt, Uwe Schott; Editor: Laure an indisputable feat of editing. Ap- prepare for the final days in a decades- struction workers to painstakingly Gardette; Cast: Paula Beer, Pierre Niney, Marie Gruber, Ernst Stötzner, peared on Best of 2016 lists in Sight & long effort. The Freedom to Marry ex- build a dam and provide water to the Johann Von Bülow, Anton Von Lucke; Cinematographer: Pascal Marti Sound, Filmmaker Magazine, and The amines a historic moment in its broad local population. Heart-warming, SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA Film Stage. “Like nothing I’ve seen context, but with an essential focus on humorous, and beautifully filmed, Fa- This sumptuous forbidden romance is set in the shadow of World War before. Impossible to believe but im- the individuals who often get lost in ther Wally’s story is an example of the I. It’s 1919 in a German mountain town, where Anna is mourning her possible to resist” (Way Too Indie). (MK) the story of a movement. (MSJ) Wisconsin Idea come to life. (KJ) fiancé Frantz, who was killed in combat. One day, she encounters a Frenchman visiting his grave, who reveals that he and Frantz were friends in Paris before the war. Despite lingering hostility towards their recent foes, Frantz’s parents come to embrace the stranger as he shares vivid recollections of his time with Frantz, while Anna feels drawn to him on a deeper level. But things are not exactly as they seem, and in its second half Frantz reckons with whether the truth is always preferable to lies. WFF regular François Ozon’s resonant remake of Ernst Lubitsch’s Broken Lullaby (screening at the Chazen on 35mm) was nominated for 11 César Awards (the French Oscar equiva- lent), including Best Film, Director, Actor, Adaptation, and Cinema- tography. 2017 Sundance Film Festival. “Astonishingly beautiful and

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Gags The Front Page SEE: Creepshow SAT, APR 1 • 11:00 AM CHAZEN MUSEUM OF ART HEATHER LINVILLE WILL APPEAR SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Narrative • USA • 1931 • 35mm • 98 MIN Director: Lewis Milestone; Screenwriter: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, based on their play; Producer: Howard Hughes; Editor: W. Duncan Mansfield; Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O’Brien, Golden Exits Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton, Walter L. Catlett, George E. Stone, Mae Clarke, Slim FRI, MAR 31 • 6:00 PM Summerville; Cinematographer: Glen MacWilliams UNION SOUTH MARQUEE SECTION: RESTORATIONS The Gold of Naples MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • USA • 2017 • DCP • 94 MIN AND REDISCOVERIES L’oro di Napoli Director: Alex Ross Perry; Screenwriter: Alex Ross Perry; Producer: Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Alex Ross Perry, Adam Piotrowicz, Katie 1928 play is one of the most durable FRI, MAR 31 • 11:00 AM Stern, Joshua Blum; Editor: Robert Greene; Cast: Emily Browning, Adam Horovitz, Mary-Louise Parker, Lily Rabe, Jason Schwartzman, Chloë Sevigny; comedies in the American reper- CHAZEN MUSEUM OF ART Cinematographer: Sean Price Williams; Music: Keegan DeWitt tory, and Lewis Milestone’s brash SUN, APR 2 • 2:15 PM SECTION: AMERICAN VISIONS and brisk screen adaptation deserves CHAZEN MUSEUM OF ART A first rate ensemble leads Alex Ross Perry’s thorny New York story, a place of pride alongside it. Set in hailed as “Brooklyn Bergman” in a glowing New Yorker review (Eric Gulîstan, Land of Roses Prohibition-era Chicago, this cynical SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Narrative • Italy • 1954 • 35mm • Italian with Rohmer is an equally applicable touchstone). Two established couples valentine to the ink-stained wretches FRI, MAR 31 • 3:30 PM English subtitles • 138 MIN are upended with the arrival of twentysomething Australian Naomi of the world chronicles ace reporter UW CINEMATHEQUE Director: Vittorio De Sica.; Screenwriter: Vittorio (Emily Browning). Naomi’s only New York connections are to her Hildy Johnson’s fitful efforts to get De Sica, Cesare Zavattini, Giuseppe Marotta; archivist boss, Nick (Beastie Boy Adam Horowitz), and Buddy, an old THU, APR 6 • 12:15 PM married, settle down, and leave his Producer: Dino De Laurentiis, Carlo Ponti; Editor: Eraldo Da Roma; Cast: Sophia Loren, family friend she hasn’t seen in years (Jason Schwartzman). Both SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 yellow profession behind. But Hildy’s Silvana Mangano, Eduardo De Filippo, Paolo men are contentedly married, but Naomi’s sudden presence tests their WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary hard-assed editor, Walter Burns, can’t Stoppa, Totò, Vittorio De Sica; Cinematographer: inner commitments. An excellent Chloë Sevigny and Mary-Louise • Canada, Germany • 2016 • DCP • lose his best scrivener, especially Carlo Montuori; Music: Alessandro Cicognini Kurdish with English subtitles • 86 MIN Parker play Nick’s wife and sister in law, and also his quasi-employers, when the imminent execution of a SECTION: RESTORATIONS Director: Zaynê Akyol; Producer: Sarah AND REDISCOVERIES as it is their late father’s papers he and Naomi are supposed to be cata- Red rabble-rouser is worth its weight Mannering, Fanny Drew, Yanick Létourneau, loging. As in The Color Wheel (WFF 2011) and Listen Up Philip, Perry Mehmet Aktas, Nathalie Cloutier, Denis in column inches. The play would be After he revolutionized cinema with proves himself a master of acerbic dialogue, cutting to the core of his McCready; Editor: Mathieu Bouchard- adapted for the screen another half- neorealist classics like Bicycle Thieves Malo; Cinematographer: Étienne Roussy characters through their relationships and rivalries. With this witty dozen times (including formidable and Umberto D, legendary director SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL and incisive network narrative, “Perry affirms that he’s both one of efforts by Howard Hawks and Billy Vittorio De Sica returned to his Com- DOCUMENTARIES, NEW WOMEN DIRECTORS the most talented younger filmmakers working in American movies, Wilder), but Milestone’s 1931 version media dell’Arte roots for this sextet In the Kurdish mountains, a band of and a great writer of roles for women” (Manohla Dargis, New York with Pat O’Brien and Adolphe Menjou of humorous stories set in his beloved female guerrillas is preparing for bat- Times). 2017 Sundance, Berlin Film Festivals. (MK) comes closest to matching Hecht and Naples, city of his youth. In one of her tle against Daesh (better known here MacArthur’s devil-may-care im- earliest film appearances, Sophia Lo- as ISIS). Documentarian Zaynê Akyol mediacy; it’s not a period piece, but a ren plays the unfaithful wife of a pizza embeds us within this fierce, feminist maker who searches, with her hus- vulgar salute ripping through the air. with Aaron Pedersen as the dogged brigade as they prepare their bodies band, for her missing emerald wedding Contemporary reviewers lavished Aboriginal detective Jay Swan. As and minds for combat. In powerfully ring. In another memorable episode The Front Page with superlatives: Pare the story begins, Jay, who continues intimate interviews, the women dis- De Sica himself plays an aristocrat and Lorentz urged his readers to see this to struggle with his drinking, has cuss their philosophical reasons and degenerate gambler reduced to playing “extraordinary movie” before “Mr. turned up in a dusty mining commu- motivations for fighting in unforget- a card game with a child. The other Hays, Mr. Akerson, or the Republi- nity – again in the middle-of-nowhere table terms. Here among the Kurdis- stories revolve around street clowns, can Committee on Humor burn all - looking into the disappearance of tan Workers’ Party militia, they are prostitutes, and gangsters and feature the available prints.” No prints were a Chinese migrant worker. Working free from the constricting gender such Italian cinema superstars as Sil- burned, but we’ve had to suffice with with a young local cop (Alex Russell), roles that pervade the rest of their vana Mangano, Eduardo De Filippo a toned-down version prepared for Jay’s investigation leads him to the society, where, as one puts it, “every and the great Totò. The Gold of Naples European audiences from alternate shady head of the mining company woman left to the mercy of man is is a personal favorite of filmmaker takes — until now. Finally restored (David Wenham) and the town’s condemned to slavery.” The battle will Martin Scorsese who has commented Goldstone to the original American release brassy, cake-baking mayor (Jacki be dangerous for everyone, but female on how the stories “move effortlessly TUE, APR 4 • 6:15 PM version for the first time in decades, Weaver). Eventually, Jay uncovers soldiers are perched at a unique preci- between comedy and tragedy. As if SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 The Front Page is a pre-Code marvel a messy plot of political kickbacks, pice. On one hand, they pose an added MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG laughing and crying were two sides of with a machine-gun stride. A 35mm WED, APR 5 • 2:00 PM swindled land deals and human traf- psychological threat because Daesh the same coin that you could flip at any print from the Academy Film Archive SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 ficking. As in Mystery Road, Sen dis- believes that soldiers killed by women moment.” De Sica’s omnibus classic will be shown. Restored in 2016 by plays a patient, confident storytelling will never reach paradise. On the set the standard for the many multi- MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • the Academy Film Archive and The Australia • 2016 • DCP • 110 MIN style that pays off with an exciting ac- other, the rebel women have to fear storied Italian movies to come over the Film Foundation. Restoration fund- Director: Ivan Sen; Screenwriter: Ivan Sen; tion conclusion. Visually, the director being taken as spoils of war. Despite next decades. Originally released in ing provided by the George Lucas Producer: David Jowsey, Greer Simpkin; favors geometrically composed wide taking place in a war zone, Gulîstan is the U.S. with only four of the six tales, Editor: Ivan Sen; Cast: Aaron Pedersen, Family Foundation. Elements for this shots, revealing the vast emptiness a remarkably composed piece of film- our screenings will be from a 35mm Alex Russell, Pei Pei Cheng, David restoration provided by The Howard Gulpilil, David Wenham, Jacki Weaver; of the sun-blasted landscape, but Sen making, etched with an artist’s eye for subtitled archival print of the original, Hughes Corporation, the University Cinematographer: Ivan Sen; Music: Ivan Sen tells much of his story through the detail and an intense devotion to its uncut Italian release version, courtesy of Nevada, Las Vegas College of Fine SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA magnetic, rugged face of Pedersen. subjects. Winner, 2016 Doc Alliance Istituto Luce Cinecittà. 1955 Cannes Arts, Department of Film and its A follow-up to the Australian Outback The actor, who can also be seen this Award. (MK) Film Festival. (JH) Howard Hughes Collection at the police noir Mystery Road (WFF 2014), WFF in Killing Ground, is a genuine Presented with support from the Academy Film Archive. (KW) Presented with support from UW Cinematheque. Goldstone reunites director Ivan Sen movie star. (JH) Middle East Studies Program. 15 H-I WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL

A huge hit with European audiences, this new Swiss German adaptation of Johanna Spyri’s classic children’s book (published in 1881) puts the mud back into the Alpine pastures. After the death of her parents, our fi ve-year old heroine, Heidi, (down-to-earth newcomer Anuk Steffen) is sent to live with her grumpy grandfather (played by veteran Swiss actor Bruno Ganz) in the mountains of Switzerland. Her world is turned upside down Hunter again three years later when her aunt SEE: Speaking in Tongues takes her away from her now beloved Heidi grandfather, her friend Peter and the Illegitimate SUN, APR 2 • 11:00 AM mountains to fl at Frankfurt. There Illegitim UNION SOUTH MARQUEE she is a paid companion to Klara who SUN, APR 2 • 4:00 PM is in wheelchair ever since her mother Narrative • Germany • 2015 • DCP • 111 MIN SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 died. Will Heidi see her grandfather Director: Alain Gsponer; Screenwriter: TUE, APR 4 • 4:15 PM Petra Biondina Volpe, Johanna Spyri; and her best friend Peter again? And Producer: Jakob Claussen; Editor: Mike if so, what about Klara? Winner of the SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 Schaerer; Cast: Anuk Steffen, Bruno 2016 German Film Award (Outstand- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • Ganz, Quirin Agrippi; Cinematographer: ing Children or Youth Film). (KK) France, Poland, Romania • 2016 • DCP • Matthias Fleischer; Music: Niki Reiser Romanian with English subtitles • 89 MIN SECTION: BIG SCREENS, LITTLE FOLKS Presented with support from SSM Health. Director: Adrian Sitaru; Screenwriter: Alina Grigore, Adrian Sitaru; Producer: Anamaria Antoci, Stanislaw Dziedzic, Klaudia Smieja, Yohann Cornu; Editor: Mircea Olteanu, Theo Lichtenberger; Cast: Alina Grigore, Robi Urs, Bogdan Albulescu, Adrian Titieni, Cristina Olteanu; Cinematographer: Adrian The Happiest Day in Silisteanu, Alexandru Lorian Timosca the Life of Olli Mäki SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA Victor is a retiree who lives with Hymyilevä Mies his four grown children, relishing FRI, MAR 31 • 6:45 PM his role as the patriarch. At the end SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 of a typically lively family dinner, SAT, APR 1 • 1:45 PM the topic turns to abortion. This unexpectedly looses an avalanche SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 I, Daniel Blake of family secrets, both old and new. SAT, APR 1 • 7:15 PM WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • Broadly speaking, everyone holds Finland, Germany, Sweden • 2016 • DCP • UNION SOUTH MARQUEE Finnish with English subtitles • 92 MIN more or less the same position, but Director: Juho Kuosmanen; Screenwriter: SUN, APR 2 • 11:15 AM fresh revelations cause each family Juho Kuosmanen, Mikko Myllylahti; Producer: SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 member to reevaluate exactly where Jussi Rantamäki; Editor: Jussi Rautaniemi; they stand. Director Adrian Sitaru’s Cast: Jarkko Lahti, Oona Airola, Eero MADISON PREMIERE • Narrative • Belgium, Milonoff; Cinematographer: J-P Passi France, UK • 2016 • DCP • 100 MIN incisive moral tale examines the SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA Director: Ken Loach; Screenwriter: Paul tight spot where people’s ethical Laverty; Producer: Rebecca O’Brien; Editor: codes and personal lives intersect. Helsinki, 1962. Finland’s unlikely Jonathan Morris; Cast: Dave Johns, Hayley The fi lm’s tense naturalism was featherweight champ is a small-town Squires, Dylan McKiernan, Briana Shann, Sharon Percy; Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan achieved through unusual rigor: charmer named Olli Mäki. Olli gets SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA working from an idea by nervy lead an unexpected big break with the actress Alina Grigore, the perform- news that he’ll be fi ghting in Ameri- The Hero Winner of the coveted Palme d’Or ers rehearsed for a year and a half. can Davey Jones in a World Cham- TUE, APR 4 • 6:30 PM at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Finally, the still-scriptless fi lm was pionship bout, the biggest sporting UNION SOUTH MARQUEE veteran fi lmmaker Ken Loach’s lat- improvised in front of cameras event in Finnish history. There’s just est is a deeply empathetic portrait WED, APR 5 • 12:15 PM shooting documentary-style, usual- one problem: Olli’s fallen in love. of an unemployed handyman and SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 ly in only a single take. The result is Anyone can see that Olli’s going to his struggles against a monolithic a rare fi nd: a carefully thought out, get his clock cleaned, so he should NICK OFFERMAN & BRETT HALEY SCHEDULED TO APPEAR APRIL 4 ONLY British bureaucracy. Sidelined after intellectually stimulating fi lm that be focusing on his training, but all USA • 2017 • DCP • 96 MIN an illness, 59-year-old Newcastle is imbued with genuine spontaneity. he can think of is his new fl ame. He Director: Brett Haley; Screenwriter: Brett Haley, Marc Basch; Producer: Houston King, resident Daniel Blake (Dave Johns) Sam Bisbee, Erik Rommesmo; Editor: Brett Haley; Cast: Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon, International Confederation of Art can’t help it, much to the dismay of now spends his days looking for work Krysten Ritter, Nick Offerman, Katharine Ross; Cinematographer: Rob Givens Cinemas Award, Berlin Film Festi- his showman manager, who is stuck and fi ghting to collect his Employ- SECTION: AMERICAN VISIONS, NICK OFFERMAN DAY val. Best Film, Odessa Film Festival. trying to sell this besotted softie as ment and Support allowance from A 72-year-old veteran Hollywood actor with only a few credits he Best Narrative Feature, Philadel- a vicious pugilist (when a photogra- a cruel network of red tape. When can feel proud of, Lee Hayden (Sam Elliott) now spends most of his phia Film Festival. (MK) pher asks him to shadowbox for the Daniel meets Katie (Hayley Squires), time smoking pot with his pal and former co-star Jeremy (Nick Offer- camera, Olli can’t help but giggle). a young mother of two who has been man) and occasionally recording a commercial voiceover for fast food Based on a true story, Olli Mäki is relocated north with her kids after chicken. When he’s given a not-so-rosy health diagnosis, Lee decides hands-down the sweetest boxing fi lm living in a London homeless shelter, to get his house in order by repairing the relationship with his es- ever made. Shot handheld on shim- the two form a supportive friendship tranged daughter (Krysten Ritter) and pursuing one last great movie mering black-and-white 16mm fi lm that allows them both to steal a few role. Meanwhile, Lee becomes a viral internet sensation while accept- stock, director Juho Kuosmanen’s moments of relief and happiness. ing a career achievement award and he surprises himself by becoming irresistible debut feels like an un- Working again with his frequent col- closer to a much younger stand-up comedian (Laura Prepon). Writer/ earthed treasure from the European laborator, screenwriter Paul Laverty, director Brett Haley’s previous feature, I’ll See You in My Dreams, was New Waves that were sprouting up Loach has crafted a naturalistic and another meditation on aging and a starring vehicle for the under- just as Olli was entering the ring. seemingly effortless story of people utilized actress Blythe Danner. Now, Haley has provided the same “Marvelous, from its very fi rst, per- in desperate situations. The vivid opportunity for Danner’s Dreams co-star Elliott, who, with his unmis- fectly composed frame” (Variety). reality he creates comes from more takable drawl and droopy moustache, has been charming audiences Winner, Un Certain Regard, 2016 than fi fty years of fi lmmaking and for decades. Funny and touching in equal measures, The Hero is also Cannes Film Festival. Winner, Gold a developed knack for casting that an honest look at show business and one performer’s dreams and dis- Hugo, 2016 Chicago Film Festival. allows his actors to create instantly appointments. 2017 Sundance Film Festival. (JH) MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG Discovery of the Year, 2016 European relatable characters. 2016 Cannes and 16 Film Awards. (MK) Toronto Film Festivals. (JH) MARCH 30 - APRIL 6, 2017 I-K

Evoking a modern-day Brothers Grimm, this bewitching fairy tale tells of 18 year-old conjoined twins with angelic voices. Stuck singing trite pop songs at run-down parties, Dasy and Viola are treated as little more than a meal ticket by their louse of a father, and a novelty act by everyone else. Everything changes when a visiting surgeon reveals what their parents have kept secret all these Indivisible years: because they share no internal Indivisibili organs, the girls could be separated. It’s Not the Time SAT, APR 1 • 8:00 PM Thunderstruck, they flee their tiny of My Life Neapolitan village and embark on a SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 dreamlike odyssey to scrape together Ernelláék Farkaséknál SUN, APR 2 • 1:45 PM enough cash to afford the operation. TUE, APR 4 • 8:30 PM SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 Literally attached at the hip for their SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative entire lives, Dasy and Viola neverthe- • Italy • 2016 • DCP • Italian with less have very distinct worldviews, WED, APR 5 • 12:00 PM English subtitles • 104 MIN and nearly opposing reactions to the SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA prospect of separation. This involv- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative Director: Edoardo De Angelis; Screenwriter: ing, Felliniesque fantasy reflects on • Hungary • 2016 • DCP • Hungarian Nicola Guaglianone, Barbara Petronio, with English subtitles • 81 MIN the push-and-pull virtues of indepen- Edoardo De Angelis; Producer: Attilio De Director: Szabolcs Hajdu; Screenwriter: Szabolcs Razza, Pierpaolo Verga; Editor: Chiara dence and companionship. Winner Hajdu; Producer: Dániel Herner, András Muhi, Griziotti; Cast: Angela Fontana, Marianna of 5 awards at the 2016 Venice Film Ferenczy Gábor, Zsófia Muhi; Editor: Szilvia Fontana, Antonia Truppo, Massimiliano Rossi, Papp; Cast: Szabolcs Hajdu, Orsolya Török- Tony Laudadio; Cinematographer: Ferran Festival, including one honoring films Illyés, Erika Tankó, Domokos Szabó , Lujza Paredes Rubio; Music: Enzo Avitabile dedicated to women. (MK) Hajdu; Cinematographer: Csaba Bántó, Flóra Chilton, Dávid Gajdics, Betti Hejüsz, Márton The Incident Kisteleki, Ákos K. Kovács, Péter Miskolczi, Péter Pásztor, Tamas Simon, Márk Szalai, Kati Kati SAT, APR 1 • 3:15 PM Gábor Szilágyi, Gergely Tímár, Levente Tóth FRI, MAR 31 • 8:45 PM CHAZEN MUSEUM OF ART SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 LARRY PEERCE SCHEDULED TO APPEAR “Why are we still together?” Just as THU, APR 6 • 2:15 PM SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Narrative Eszter and Farkas broach this midlife SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 • USA • 1967 • 35mm • 107 MIN perennial, their in-laws arrive. Er- Director: Larry Peerce; Screenwriter: Nicholas nella and Albert need a place to crash, POST SCREENING DISCUSSION LED BY E. Baehr; Producer: Edward Meadow, Monroe AFRICAN STUDIES PROGRAM (4/6 ONLY) Sachson; Editor: Armond Lebowitz; Cast: having abruptly (and ashamedly) WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • Tony Musante, Martin Sheen, Beau Bridges, returned to Hungary after an aborted Germany, Kenya • 2016 • DCP • English, Brock Peters, Ruby Dee, Jack Gilford, Ed Swahili with English subtitles • 75 MIN McMahon, Thelma Ritter, Jan Sterling, Donna attempt to live abroad. The ensuing Mills, Gary Merrill; Cinematographer: Gerald 24 hours provide both couples with Director: Mbithi Masya; Screenwriter: Hirschfeld; Music: Charles Fox, Terry Knight many opportunities to ponder mar- Mbithi Masya, Mugambi Nthiga; Producer: Sarika Hemi Lakhani, Siobhain “Ginger” SECTION: RESTORATIONS riage’s inevitably recurring question, Wilson, Tom Tykwer, Katja Lebedjewa, Marie AND REDISCOVERIES with evidence to support a verdict in Steinmann-Tykwer; Editor: Louizah Wanjiku; One late night on a New York subway either direction. Named Best Film Cast: Nyokabi Gethaiga, Elsaphan Njora; Cinematographer: Andrew “Dru” Mungai car, a pair of teenaged thugs terror- at the prestigious Karlovy Vary Film SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA izes a group of passengers, virtually Festival, this extraordinarily lifelike holding them hostage. Although out- portrait of familial discord captures Kaleche wakes up in Kenya’s grass- numbered, the two teens take advan- Infinity Baby the tangle of conflicting emotions en- lands with no memory of who she is, or how she got there. Dressed in tage of the passenger’s passivity and TUE, APR 4 • 9:15 PM demic to any long-term relationship, unwillingness to act together. “What a hospital gown, she stumbles upon UNION SOUTH MARQUEE which tend to bubble over in close begins as a standard piece of inner quarters. Some of the film’s bracing a sun-dappled resort, where a group BOB BYINGTON & NICK OFFERMAN SCHEDULED TO APPEAR city pulp,” writes Film Programmer authenticity can be chalked up to the of strangers inform her that she has Julian Antos, “quickly spirals into MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • USA • 2017 • DCP • 75 MIN intimacy of its production: director died. As Kaleche acclimates to the a delicate microcosm of New York Director: Bob Byington; Screenwriter: Onur Tukel; Producer: Barry Lacina, Szlabolcs Hadju stars with his real- afterlife, she warms up to Thoma, Christos Konstantakopoulos, Veronica Leon, Rebecca Eskreis, Megan Mullally, a charismatic ringleader who helps City under pressure.” Released in Nick Offerman; Editor: Kris Boustedt; Cast: Kieran Culkin, Trieste Kelly Dunn, life wife and son as the host family, 1967, The Incident is perhaps the first Nick Offerman, Martin Starr, Kevin Corrigan, Megan Mullaly, Noel Wells, and the film was shot entirely in their her recall her earthly life. Their significant studio release to look Stephen Root; Cinematographer: Matthias Grunsky; Music: Aesop Rock actual apartment. Hadju’s home- relationship triggers an ominous unflinchingly at New York after the SECTION: AMERICAN VISIONS, NICK OFFERMAN DAY grown techniques extend behind of connection between their present devastating murder of Kitty Geno- Infinity Baby is another funny voyage into absurdsville from director the camera, too: It’s Not the Time of and past lives, and Kati Kati begins vese in 1964. It presaged a number Bob Byington (Harmony & Me, WFF 2010, Somebody Up There Likes My Life boasts 13 credited cinema- to look more like purgatory than of movies, from Where’s Poppa? to Me, WFF 2012). Ostensibly about the scientific “innovation” of a breed tographers, all film students of the paradise. This thoughtful, poetic The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, of babies that never age, the satirical premise is ultimately just an director, who each took on a sequence parable announces a major new voice that examined the dark side of urban excuse for Byington to further explore the frequently dysfunctional while maintaining a cohesive look. in sub-Saharan African cinema with living during the era of “Fun City.” dynamics of dating, parenting, corporate shenanigans, consumerism “Engrossing, poignant, and often very first-time director Mbithi Masya, Never released on DVD, this screen- and work relationships. How were the eternal infants created? Good funny… this chamber piece is as good whose previous career as a musi- ing represents a rare opportunity question! It has something to do with a stem cell research accident in as they come” (CineVue). (MK) cian can be clearly felt in Kati Kati’s to view an excellent 35mm archival the not-too-distant future that resulted in a batch of cuties who will lyrical beauty. Winner, FIPRESCI MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG print of this genuinely unnerving hu- never grow up to leave the nest or forget to call. A for-profit company Discover Prize, 2016 Toronto Film man drama. The superb cast includes has been set up to find homes for the ageless tykes and Infinity Baby’s Festival. “This streamlined, creative, Tony Musante and Martin Sheen (in Founder, Neo Getwell (Nick Offerman) spends most of his time deal- gorgeously lensed feature resembles his first big-screen role) as the two ing with his barely competent staff. Neo’s top salesman, commitment- a sub-Saharan mashup of Lost, 28 antagonists, plus Jack Gilford, Thel- phobe Ben (Kieran Culkin), is busy dating a series of women and Days Later, and The Leftovers, and is ma Ritter, Ruby Dee, Jan Sterling, Ed breaking up with them by introducing them to his “mother” (Megan as accessible as any of those three” McMahon, Brock Peters, Mike Kellin Mullally). Meanwhile, baby deliverymen Malcolm (Martin Starr) and (Film Comment). “A small movie and Beau Bridges as the other riders. Larry (Kevin Corrigan) are having trouble providing the correct do- about big ideas… an original, vibrant, Director Larry Peerce (One Potato, asge of medication that keeps the babies from pooping more than once and exciting statement from a talent- Two Potato, Goodbye, Columbus) will a week. Loosely structured with snappy, playful dialogue, Byington’s ed filmmaker who clearly has much join us in person to talk about his still latest offers a view of a world where “making babies is easy, but taking I Turn to Jello more to say” (The Playlist). (MK) powerfully relevant movie, now 50 care of them is punishment.” (JH) Presented with support from the years old. (JH) SEE: Fraud African Studies Program. 17 K-L WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL

confrontational gigs earn media no- toriety and devoted disciples in equal measure, so it’s no surprise when the industry hacks start circling. With her iconic red eyeliner and skunk-stripe hairdo, Lane’s look served as a fashion template for a generation of riot- grrrls—even now, 35 years later, she comes off as a total badass. Written pseudonymously by Slap Shot scribe Nancy Dowd and directed by music producer Lou Adler, this is a surpris- The Little Seed ingly honest film about the ultimate SEE: Shorter and Sweeter punk dilemma: selling out. A 15 year- old Laura Dern co-stars as the band’s bassist, and their tourmates include Sex Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook, and Paul Simonin of The Clash. Bur- ied upon its initial release, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains has amassed an obsessive fan base over the years. Join the club. “A cult classic Killing Ground King Of Jazz whose time has come” (AV Club). (MK) MON, APR 3 • 8:30 PM THU, APR 6 • 6:15 PM SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 THU, APR 6 • 4:30 PM SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Other • USA • 1930 • DCP • 100 MIN Director: John Murray Anderson; Screenwriter: Harry Ruskin; Producer: Carl Laemmle SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 Jr.; Editor: Robert Carlisle; Cast: Paul Whiteman, John Boles, Laura La Plante, Slim WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • Summerville, Walter Brennan, The Rhythm Boys (Bing Crosby, Al Rinker, Harry Australia • 2016 • DCP • 89 MIN Barris), Glen Tryon; Cinematographer: Jerome Ash, Hal Mohr, Ray Rennahan Director: Damien Power; Screenwriter: Damien SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND REDISCOVERIES, CLOSING NIGHT Power; Producer: Joe Weatherstone, Lisa One of the most visually spectacular of all movie musicals, King of Shaunessy; Editor: Katie Flaxman; Cast: Aaron Pedersen, Ian Meadows, Harriet Dyer, Aaron Jazz is a Technicolor all-singing, all dancing revue with a few comic Glenane; Cinematographer: Simon Chapman sketches thrown in for good measure. It was originally conceived as a Little Wing SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA showcase for one of the most popular stars of his era, bandleader Paul Last Chance One of the most frightening and well- Whiteman. Today, the portly Whiteman is remembered as the man Tyttö nimeltä Varpu SEE: Creepshow crafted films of its kind since Deliver- who commissioned George Gershwin to write “Rhapsody in Blue,” FRI, MAR 31 • 11:00 AM ance, this nastily effective Australian one of the many show-stopping production numbers in this marvelous UW CINEMATHEQUE thriller set in a remote camping site entertainment. Nothing if not ambitious, Universal Pictures spent a will make you think twice about then-staggering amount of $2 million for their first mega-production SAT, APR 1 • 4:30 PM where you take your next vacation. of the talkie era, sparing no expense on jaw-dropping sets and hir- SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 During the holiday season, city doc- ing veteran Broadway revue creator John Murray Anderson to direct MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • when Florenz Ziegfeld proved unavailable. Because it was out of cir- Denmark, Finland • 2016 • DCP • Finnish tor Ian and his fiancée Sam arrive for with English subtitles • 100 MIN culation and unseen for decades, King of Jazz became little more than a few days getaway at a campground Director: Selma Vilhunen; Screenwriter: Selma miles from any civilization. What a footnote in film history for introducing movie audiences to Bing Vilhunen; Producer: Kai Nordberg, Kaarle Aho; happens next is best left for the view- Crosby, then a member of Whiteman’s singing trio The Rhythm Boys Editor: Samu Heikkilä; Cast: Linnea Skog, Paula who here memorably perform the toe-tapping “Happy Feet” and a few Vesala, Lauri Maijala, Santtu Karvonen, Antti er to discover, but it is safe to say that Luusuaniemi; Cinematographer: Tuomo Hutri other songs. After years of only being unavailable in incomplete, poor in less than 24 hours Sam and Ian will SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL be fighting for their lives. Director quality copies, King of Jazz has been lovingly restored to its original LI CINEMA, NEW WOMEN DIRECTORS Damien Power, making his feature- length and its lustrous early Technicolor palette by Universal. (JH) SEE: Speaking in Tongues An authentic depiction of a young length debut, is clearly a talent to keep girl on the verge of adolescence, Little an eye on. In a deliberately non-showy Wing believably depicts what may end fashion, Power takes his time in set- up being the most formative events in ting up his story and introducing his the life of its smart and strong hero- principal characters who, at first, ine. Sensitively portrayed by Linnea seemingly have little relationship Skog, 12-year-old Varpu lives with her to each other. When you realize his needy, childlike mother Paula, who clever little storytelling trick, Power has never told Varpu about her father. patiently holds back on the action, al- Learning to ride horses with other lowing your sense of dread to build up girls her age, Varpu has begun to real- even more. Then, things go from bad ize how un-normal her daily life has to much, much worse. While decid- been. After a fight with Paula, who edly violent, Killing Ground is never Lingua Absentia has a new man in her life, Varpu runs excessively so as Variety critic Dennis King’s Day Ladies and Gentlemen, SEE: Speaking in Tongues away to search for her mysterious Harvey notes when he writes that biological father. Oscar nominated for the movie “might easily have turned SEE: Short and Sweet the Fabulous Stains her 2012 short Do I Have to Take Care into a sadistic wallow...But Power’s of Everything?, Director Selma Vil- judicious control manages to sidestep FRI, MAR 31 • 8:30 PM CHAZEN MUSEUM OF ART hunen finds plenty of warm-hearted those pitfalls in service of a white- humor in Varpu’s story, which, true to USA • 1982 • 35mm • 87 MIN knuckle thriller, whose deftly turned its protagonist, is told with an open- characters skirt caricature, and whose Director: Lou Adler; Screenwriter: Nancy Dowd; Producer: Joe Roth; Editor: Tom Benko; Cast: minded clarity and optimism about increasingly harrowing situations are Diane Lane, Laura Dern, Marin Kanter, Ray people. Little Wing is a real winner. pulled off with such skill that they Winstone; Cinematographer: Bruce Surtees 2016 Toronto Film Festival. (JH) never quite tip into lurid melodrama… SECTION: RESTORATIONS The canny, quiet restraint at work AND REDISCOVERIES Presented with support from the Department of German, Nordic and Slavic here not only heightens the tension, “We’re the Stains, and we don’t put but helps to make Killing Ground seem out.” A 16 year-old Diane Lane stars The Little Bird and less a horror exercise than a straight- Konigiri-Kun Shopping as the frontwoman of an all-girl punk CONTINUED ON MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG up, stripped-down suspenser.” 2017 band that rockets to cult infamy over the Caterpillar PAGE 23 18 Sundance Film Festival. (JH) SEE: Shorter and Sweeter the course of a rust belt tour. Their SEE: Shorter and Sweeter A GREAT LOCATION IN THE HEART OF ALL THE ACTION

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FRIDAY, MARCH 31 10AM 11AM 12PM 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM 6PM 7PM 8PM 9PM 10PM 11PM EAST Barrymore Neruda Lost in Paris 6:00pm · 108 min 8:30pm · 87 min Theatre CAMPUS | UNIVERSITY OF MADISON-WISCONSIN The Gold of Naples The Traveler Titicut Follies One Potato, Two Potato Ladies and Gentlemen, Chazen 11:00am · 138 min 1:45pm · 89 min 3:45pm · 84 min 6:00pm · 83 min the Fabulous Stains Museum of Art 8:30pm · 87 min Little Wing Sami Blood Gulîstan, Land Yourself and Yours American Anarchist Sylvio UW 11:00am · 100 min 1:15pm · 110 min of Roses 5:30pm · 86 min 7:30pm · 82 min 9:15pm · 80 min Cinematheque 3:30pm · 86 min Short and Sweet At Eye Level Afterimage Golden Exits The Rehearsal Union South 11:00am · 70 min 1:00pm · 102 min 3:30pm · 98 min 6:00pm · 94 min 8:15pm · 102 min Marquee WEST Maria (and A Decent Woman Abacus: Small Son of Joseph Paris 05:59: Sundance Everybody Else) 1:30pm · 100 min Enough to Jail 6:30pm · 115 min Théo & Hugo Cinema 1 11:15am · 96 min 3:45pm · 88 min 9:15pm · 97 min Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Quest Forever Pure Wet Woman in Kati Kati Sundance Only Dig Their Own Graves 2:30pm · 105 min 5:00pm · 87 min the Wind 8:45pm · 75 min Cinema 5 11:00am · 183 min 7:00pm · 77 min One Week and a Day The Donor Dina The Happiest Day in Personal Shopper Sundance 12:00pm · 98 min 2:15pm · 105 min 4:30pm · 101 min the Life of Olli Mäki 9:00pm · 105 min Cinema 6 6:45pm · 92 min

SATURDAY, APRIL 1 10AM 11AM 12PM 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM 6PM 7PM 8PM 9PM 10PM 11PM EAST Barrymore Bugs Obit Contemporary Color Whose Streets? The Salesman 10:30am · 85 min 12:30pm · 96 min 2:45pm · 97 min 5:00pm · 103 min 8:00pm · 125 min Theatre CAMPUS | UNIVERSITY OF MADISON-WISCONSIN The Front Page Broken Lullaby The Incident Titicut Follies Ernest Borgnine on the Bus + Marty Chazen 11:00am · 98 min 1:30pm · 75 min 3:15pm · 107 min 6:15pm · 84 min 8:15pm · 142 min Museum of Art Seeds and Cells: From Mass to A Decent Woman The Cinema Travellers The Challenge Dark Night UW Milwaukee Stories the Mountain 2:45pm · 100 min 5:00pm · 96 min 7:15pm · 70 min 9:00pm · 90 min Cinematheque 10:00am · 75 min 12:30pm · 81 min Shorter and Mr. Frog Speaking in Almost Sunrise I, Daniel Blake Creepshow: Wisconsin’s Union South Sweeter 12:30pm · 90 min Tongues... 4:30pm · 103 min 7:15pm · 100 min Own Spookiest Marquee 11:00am · 60 min 2:30pm · 81 min 9:30pm · 89 min WEST Abacus: Small Parting Clash Dogs Indivisible Sundance Enough to Jail 1:30pm · 78 min 3:15pm · 97 min 5:45pm · 104 min 8:00pm · 104 min Cinema 1 11:00am · 88 min The Rehearsal Quest Little Wing Yourself and Yours Wet Woman Sundance 11:15am · 102 min 2:00pm · 105 min 4:30pm · 100 min 6:45pm · 86 min in the Wind Cinema 5 8:30pm · 77 min Alba The Happiest Day in Afterimage Max & Leon Frantz MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG Sundance 11:30am · 98 min the Life of Olli Mäki 3:45pm · 98 min 6:00pm · 98 min 8:15pm · 113 min 20 Cinema 6 1:45pm · 92 min SUNDAY, APRIL 2 10AM 11AM 12PM 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM 6PM 7PM 8PM 9PM 10PM 11PM EAST Barrymore Divided We Fall One Week and a Day Max & Leon 60 Yard Line 11:00am · 94 min 1:45pm · 98 min 4:15pm · 98 min 7:00pm · 96 min Theatre CAMPUS | UNIVERSITY OF MADISON-WISCONSIN The Traveler The Gold of Naples Broken Lullaby Chazen 12:00pm · 89 min 2:15pm · 138 min 5:00pm · 75 min Museum of Art UW Across the Cock of the Air The Crowd The Missing Sun Time to Die World and... 1:00pm · 80 min 3:00pm · 98 min 5:15pm · 78 min 7:30pm · 88 min Cinematheque 11:00am · 60 min Heidi Portraits and The Colorado A Quiet Passion Union South 11:00am · 111 min Pictures from ... 4:00pm · 91 min 6:30pm · 125 min Marquee 1:30pm · 82 min WEST Maria (and Indivisible Illegitimate Sami Blood Fraud Sundance Everybody Else) 1:45pm · 104 min 4:00pm · 89 min 6:00pm · 110 min 8:30pm · 67 min Cinema 1 11:30am · 96 min Forever Pure American Anarchist The Freedom to Marry The Student The Crucible Sundance 11:00am · 87 min 1:00pm · 82 min 3:00pm · 86 min 5:00pm · 118 min 7:30pm · 146 min Cinema 5 I, Daniel Blake The Donor Things to Come Personal Shopper Contemporary Color Sundance 11:15am · 100 min 1:30pm · 105 min 3:45pm · 102 min 6:00pm · 105 min 8:15pm · 97 min Cinema 6

MONDAY, APRIL 3 10AM 11AM 12PM 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM 6PM 7PM 8PM 9PM 10PM 11PM WEST Dogs Son of Joseph Alba Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo Sundance 1:30pm · 104 min 3:45pm · 115 min 6:30pm · 98 min 8:45pm · 97 min Cinema 1 The Cinema Travellers The Student Wigilia Killing Ground Sundance 1:00pm · 96 min 3:30pm · 118 min 6:00pm · 94 min 8:30pm · 89 min Cinema 5 A Quiet Passion Bugs Dina Person to Person Sundance 12:30pm · 125 min 3:15pm · 85 min 5:45pm · 101 min 8:00pm · 84 min Cinema 6

TUESDAY, APRIL 4 10AM 11AM 12PM 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM 6PM 7PM 8PM 9PM 10PM 11PM CAMPUS | UNIVERSITY OF MADISON-WISCONSIN Union South Look & See My Life as a The Hero Infi nity Baby 2:00pm · 82 min Zucchini 6:30pm · 96 min 9:15pm · 75 min Marquee 4:30pm · 70 min WEST Neruda Illegitimate Goldstone It’s Not the Time Sundance 1:30pm · 108 min 4:15pm · 89 min 6:15pm · 110 min of My Life Cinema 1 8:30pm · 81 min The Freedom to Marry The Crucible Machines Nocturama Sundance 1:00pm · 86 min 3:00pm · 146 min 6:00pm · 71 min 7:45pm · 130 min Cinema 5 Person to Person Obit Lost in Paris Stranger in Clash Sundance 12:00pm · 84 min 2:30pm · 96 min 4:30pm · 87 min Paradise 8:45pm · 97 min Cinema 6 6:30pm · 72 min

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5 10AM 11AM 12PM 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM 6PM 7PM 8PM 9PM 10PM 11PM WEST It’s Not the Time Goldstone The Challenge There Are Jews Here Fraud Sundance of My Life 2:00pm · 110 min 4:30pm · 70 min 6:15pm · 90 min 8:45pm · 67 min Cinema 1 12:00pm · 81 min Nocturama Stranger in Paradise Machines Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Sundance 12:30pm · 130 min 3:15pm · 72 min 5:30pm · 71 min Only Dig Their Own Graves Cinema 5 7:15pm · 183 min The Hero Frantz Look & See Drifting Towards Sundance 12:15pm · 96 min 3:00pm · 113 min 6:00pm · 82 min the Crescent Cinema 6 8:00pm · 88 min MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG THURSDAY, APRIL 6 10AM 11AM 12PM 1PM 2PM 3PM 4PM 5PM 6PM 7PM 8PM 9PM 10PM 11PM WEST Sundance There Are Jews Here Time to Die Parting My Life as a Patti Cake$ 12:00pm · 90 min 2:30pm · 88 min 4:30pm · 78 min Zucchini 8:30pm · 108 min Cinema 1 6:30pm · 70 min Gulîstan, Land Kati Kati Killing Ground King Of Jazz Patti Cake$ Sundance of Roses 2:15pm · 75 min 4:30pm · 89 min 6:15pm · 100 min 8:30pm · 108 min Cinema 5 12:15pm · 86 min The Salesman Things to Come STEP The Lost City of Z Sundance 12:30pm · 125 min 3:15pm · 102 min 6:00pm · 83 min 8pm · 140 min Cinema 6 21 STAY CENTERED

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Maria (and Machines Everybody Else) TUE, APR 4 • 6:00 PM Maria (y los démas) SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 FRI, MAR 31 • 11:15 AM WED, APR 5 • 5:30 PM SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 Lost in Paris SUN, APR 2 • 11:30 AM Look & See: A Portrait Documentary • Finland, Germany, India • 2016 Paris Pieds Nus • DCP • Hindi with English subtitles • 71 MIN SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 of Wendell Berry FRI, MAR 31 • 8:30 PM Director: Rahul Jain; Producer: Rahul MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • Spain • 2016 Jain, Thanassis Karathanos, Iikka • DCP • Spanish with English subtitles • 96 MIN BARRYMORE THEATRE TUE, APR 4 • 2:00 PM Vehkalahti; Editor: Yaël Bitton, Rahul Jain; Director: Nely Reguera; Screenwriter: Nely UNION SOUTH MARQUEE TUE, APR 4 • 4:30 PM Cinematographer: Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva Reguera; Producer: Luisa Romeo; Editor: SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL Aina Calleja; Cast: Bárbara Lennie, José WED, APR 5 • 6:00 PM SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 DOCUMENTARIES Ángel Egido, Rocío León, Pablo Derqui, Vito SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 Sanz, Julián Villagrán, María Vázquez, Aixa WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • Belgium, France • 2016 • Enter the roiling maze of an Indian DCP • English, French with English subtitles • 87 MIN Villagrán; Cinematographer: Aitor Echevarría NICK OFFERMAN SCHEDULED textile mill in Rahul Jain’s immer- TO APPEAR APRIL 4 ONLY. Director: Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel; Screenwriter: Dominique Abel, Fiona SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL Gordon; Producer: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Charles Gillibert, Christie Molia; sive documentary, which won a CINEMA, NEW WOMEN DIRECTORS MIDWEST PREMIERE • Documentary Editor: Sandrine Deegen; Cast: Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Emmanuelle Riva, • USA • 2016 • DCP • 82 MIN Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Maria thought she had things under Pierre Richard; Cinematographer: Clair Childeric, Jean-Christophe Leforestier Director: Laura Dunn, Jef Sewell; Producer: Cinematography at the 2017 Sun- control. But when her elderly dad SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA Robert Redford, Terrence Malick, Owsley dance Film Festival. This churning abruptly announces his engagement Brown, Nick Offerman, Elaine Musselman, Need a laugh? Lose yourself in this buoyant comedy, which “does for labyrinth of ancient machinery is pe- to one of his nurses, she starts to Gill Holland, Brenda Mitchell; Editor: Laura Dunn; Cinematographer: Lee Daniel slapstick what La La Land does for musicals” (Indiewire). Gawky, gan- riodically interrupted by cascades of reconsider. His life has taken on a gly librarian Fiona is summoned from the blustery Canadian hinter- SECTION: AMERICAN VISIONS, colorful fabric, endlessly unspooling second act—has Maria even begun her NICK OFFERMAN DAY lands to the glamorous City of Lights by her senile aunt Martha. But like psychedelic waterfalls. Weav- first? She’s 35 and in much the same One of America’s most celebrated and when she arrives, her aunt is nowhere to be found. Instead, Fiona finds ing between swampy dye baths and place as when she was 25, with an un- prolific essayists and poets, Wendell herself courted by a lovestruck Chaplinesque tramp, who goes to hi- inferno-like furnaces, Jain’s camera- finished novel she’s been fiddling with Berry has for more than fifty years larious lengths to win her heart in a rush of gloriously elaborate comic eye absorbs the undeniable spectacle since high school and a casual boy- reflected on the increasing replace- setpieces. This effervescent confection comes from Fiona Gordon of this surreal netherworld, but friend who keeps her at arm’s length. ment of agrarian values with urban- and Dominique Abel, the whimsical minds and bendy limbs behind his attention soon drifts to the mi- After years of being the glue that industrial values in American culture. WFF 2012 sensation The Fairy. With their exquisite sense of visual grant laborers running it. Working holds her family together, Maria lets Committed to farming and farm liv- design and dancelike ability to make even the goofiest pratfall appear 12-hour shifts for dismal pay, they go. First time director Nely Reguera’s ing since 1965, Berry has repeatedly graceful, these rubbery Belgians are widely heralded as the heirs give powerful testimonials of the elegantly drawn portrait of modern used his literary voice to remind his apparent to Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton. For the role of Martha, conditions that led them to the mill womanhood is witty, perceptive, readers of the benefits of living a life they’ve nabbed a sprightly final turn from French icon Emmanuelle and keep them there. Without the and relatable, earning critical com- connected to the land. Eschewing tra- Riva, whose storied career stretched from Hiroshima, Mon Amour to power to unionize, some express a parisons to the films of Woody Allen, ditional biographical techniques, co- Michael Haneke’s Amour, and died in January at 88. Winner, Audience quiet fury, while others appear more Eric Rohmer, and Noah Baumbach. directors Laura Dunn and Jef Sewell Award, Mill Valley Film Festival. (MK) worn down, but all are desperate Reguera threads the needle of craft- have created a movie that shares a for a better way. Machines is kinetic ing a compassionate film that retains kinship with Berry’s writing – Look & filmmaking with a strong social un- an acerbic edge, much like its memo- dercurrent. “A magnetic cinematic See is more cinematic essay than doc- Based on the bestselling book by New rable heroine. Spanish star Bárbara experience. This movie is more than umentary. Although he is shown in Yorker writer David Grann, this ma- Lennie is utterly luminous as Maria, politics, just as it is more than po- some archival footage, the camera shy jestic epic tells the astonishing true and her captivating performance etry” (RogerEbert.com). (MK) Berry has only participated in new au- story of British explorer Percy Fawcett earned a Best Actress nomination at dio interviews, which are illustrated (Charlie Hunnam). At the dawn of the the 2017 Goya Awards (the Spanish with photographs and on-camera 20th century, Fawcett ventured into Oscar equivalent). 2016 San Sebastian, interviews with Berry’s family. Dunn the Amazon in search of an advanced Busan Film Festivals. (MK) and Sewell also talk with young, ancient city. His quest soon grew Presented with support from the contemporary farmers who have ap- into an obsession. Over the course of Department of Spanish & Portuguese. plied Berry’s philosophies and ideas decades, Fawcett returned time and MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG into their daily work lives at a time again to the jungle, seeking out this when rural areas are being developed lost civilization with maniacal fervor. on a mass level. Look & See boasts The Lost City of Z American master James Gray (The impressive cinematography from Lee Immigrant) delivers the kind of classic Daniels (Boyhood) and a powerhouse THU, APR 6 • 8:00 PM adventure that has all but vanished lineup of producers, including Robert SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 from modern cinema, overflowing Redford, Terence Malick and Nick Of- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative with rapturous imagery. Closing Night, • USA • DCP • ferman. Special Jury Award for Visual 140 MIN 2016 New York Film Festival. “A film as Design, 2016 SXSW Film Festival. Director: James Gray; Screenwriter: James Gray, based on a book by David Grann; Cast: transporting, profound and staggering 2017 Sundance Film Festival. (JH) Charlie Hunnam, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, as anything I’ve seen in the cinema in Siena Miller, Harry Melling, Angus Macfadyen; Presented with support from the Department years. An immediate classic, fit to stand Producer: James Gray, Dede Gardner; Editor: Marty of Community and Environmental John Axelrad, Lee Haugen; Cinematographer: beside the best of Werner Herzog and Sociology and Wisconsin Public Radio SEE: Ernest Borgnine on the Bus Darius Khondji; Music: Christopher Spelman Stanley Kubrick” (The Telegraph). (MK) 23 M-N WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL

(and their life together). Alma seeks help from a new-age religious leader, known for expertise in light-wave travel, as well as Terry’s estranged, drug-addicted son. The Missing Sun employs striking black-and-white cin- ematography focused on Wisconsin and Minnesota landscapes, while also featuring beautiful compositions cre- ated by smaller details from Alma’s daily life. The film’s careful pace gives added weight to the surprising turns Neruda The Missing Sun of its story, as we follow Alma’s at- FRI, MAR 31 • 6:00 PM tempts to restore Terry to reality in BARRYMORE THEATRE SUN, APR 2 • 5:15 PM this singular, mysterious drama. (MSJ) UW CINEMATHEQUE TUE, APR 4 • 1:30 PM BRENNAN VANCE SCHEDULED TO APPEAR SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 WORLD PREMIERE • Narrative • USA • My Life as a Zucchini MADISON PREMIERE • Narrative • Argentina, Max & Leon 2017 • DCP, HD Projection • 78 MIN Chile, France, Spain • 2016 • DCP • Ma vie de Courgette Spanish with English subtitles • 108 MIN La folle histoire de Max et Léon Director: Brennan Vance; Screenwriter: Brennan Vance; Producer: Brennan TUE, APR 4 • 4:30 PM Director: Pablo Larraín; Screenwriter: Vance, James Christens; Editor: Brennan Guillermo Calderón; Producer: Juan de SAT, APR 1 • 6:00 PM Vance; Cast: Gera Pobuda, Sally Wingert, UNION SOUTH MARQUEE Dios Larraín; Editor: Hervé Schneid; Cast: SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 Peter McLarnan, Lawrence Sutin; Luis Gnecco, Gael García Bernal, Mercedes Cinematographer: Brennan Vance THU, APR 6 • 6:30 PM Morán; Cinematographer: Sergio Armstrong SUN, APR 2 • 4:15 PM SECTION: AMERICAN VISIONS, SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA BARRYMORE THEATRE WISCONSIN’S OWN NICK OFFERMAN SCHEDULED Gael García Bernal stars in Jackie TO APPEAR APRIL 4 ONLY WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • A solar flare interrupts Alma’s quiet director Pablo Larraín’s second dis- Belgium, France • 2016 • DCP • French life with her husband, Terry, leaving The Mole and France, Switzerland • 2016 • French with English subtitles • 98 MIN tinctive biopic of the year. They may them without power. When she dis- with English subtitles • 70 MIN Director: Jonathan Barré; Screenwriter: have been made concurrently, but covers that he is comatose, she deter- the Earthwom Director: Claude Barras; Screenwriter: Céline Jonathan Barré, Grégoire Ludig, David Sciamma; Producer: Marc Bonny, Armelle Neruda is a very different animal, a Marsais; Producer: Alain Goldman, Christopher mines to bring him back to his body SEE: Shorter and Sweeter Glorennec, Pauline Gygax; Editor: Valentin twisty thriller full of political intrigue Lambert; Cast: Grégoire Ludig, David Rotelli; Cast: French version: Gaspard Marsais; Cinematographer: Sascha Wernik Schlatter, Sixtine Murat, Paulin Jaccoud; that has received even higher levels SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA English version: Nick Offerman, Will Forte, of acclaim. Based on a stranger-than- Ellen Page, Amy Sedaris; Cinematographer: fiction chapter of the great poet’s In this mile-a-minute comedy, two David Toutevoix; Music: Sophie Hunger novelistic life, the film opens in 1948, French slackers are forced to fend SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL for their lives as they navigate Nazi CINEMA, NICK OFFERMAN DAY as communism is outlawed in Chile and Neruda is forced into hiding. As occupied France. Max and Leon are Nominated for the Best Animated he is secreted across the snow-capped two brothers who live happily in the Feature Oscar, this tender, funny and Andes, he is pursued by a dapper po- pre-World War II French country- refreshing movie uses stop-motion lice inspector hoping to make a name side - avoiding real jobs, drinking, techniques to explore the emotional for himself by capturing the celebrity and harassing local children - until tumult of childhood and pre-adoles- fugitive. The places Larraín takes his war is declared and they are forced cence. After a tragic accident leaves twin protagonists are too delicious to to enroll. Quickly finding a way to him motherless, Young Icare finds hint at; suffice it to say his inspiration escape, the two brothers acciden- himself placed in a group foster home seems to have come as much from tally get wrapped up in a globetrot- with other neglected, abandoned or the writing of Jorge Luis Borges and ting adventure where they become orphaned kids and pre-teens. Icare, Roberto Bolaño as his subject. This unlikely heroes for the resistance. given the not-so-endearing nickname is masterful filmmaking, proof that With a cartoonish and transgressive of “Courgette” (or “Zucchini”) by his literary cinema can be just as thrilling sense of humor that recalls Michel late mother, faces some expected dif- and alive as a great novel. Larraín’s Hazanavicius’ two OSS 117 movies ficulties in transitioning to his new second triumph of the year received (both WFF favorites), Max and Leon world. Soon, however, he finds the a Golden Globe nomination for Best assembles a series of bit characters love, friendship and support he never Foreign Film, and appeared on Best and memorable set pieces, most no- knew before in his relationships with of 2016 lists in Slate, Film Comment, tably a half-hallucinated chase scene the group home staff, a kind-hearted and Indiewire. 2016 Cannes, Telluride, through an outdoor market. The film’s policeman, and, above all, his fel- New York Film Festivals. (MK) greatest assets, though, are leading low children. Avoiding cuteness and men David Marsais and Grégoire whimsy at every turn, director Claude Ludig, stars of the French TV Show Barras yields astounding emotional Palmashow. Their chemistry as two depths from his cast of wide-eyed fig- brothers brings genuine warmth to Mr. Frog ures with tiny frames and oversized the film and holds together a comedy heads. Barras’ deft balancing act UNION SOUTH BOX OFFICE: that is otherwise interested first and Meester Kikker reveals a number of sometimes pain- 1308 W DAYTON ST, MADISON foremost on smart, belly-laugh jokes, SAT, APR 1 • 12:30 PM ful, sometimes liberating universal and a lot of them. (VM) UNION SOUTH MARQUEE insights about the need to love and be loved and the solidarity of youth. The Presented with support from the Narrative • The Netherlands • 2016 • DCP • Dutch with English subtitles • 90 MIN Center for European Studies. Cesar Award-winning screenplay, an Director: Anna van der Heide; Screenwriter: Mieke de Jong, Paul van Loon; Producer: Burny Bos; Editor: Michiel Reichwein; Cast: Yenthe Bos, Jeroen adaptation of a novel by Gilles Paris, Spitzenberger, Paul Kooij; Cinematographer: Mark van Aller; Music: Fons Merkies is by accomplished filmmaker Celine SECTION: BIG SCREENS, LITTLE FOLKS Sciamma, who has already moved Frans, a beloved teacher has a secret. He turns into a frog whenever WFF audiences with her own tales of these green, croaking, slimy animals are mentioned. Luckily, Sita, one adolescence like Tomboy (WFF 2012) of his students loves amphibians and she will do everything to protect and Girlhood (WFF 2015). My Life as a him, no matter in what form. But will she, with the help of her fellow Zucchini will screen both in its origi- students, be able to? Especially with the strict new principal whose nal French language version (4/6) name is Stork and who seems to monitor the unconventional teacher and in an English language version closely at all times? Don’t miss this hilarious and heartwarming fan- (4/4) that features the voices of Nick tasy based on the bestselling novel by Dutch author Paul van Loon Offerman, Will Forte, Ellen Page and Milwaukee 53206 (Alfie, the Werewolf) (KK) Amy Sedaris. 2016 Cannes & Toronto MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG Film Festivals; 2017 Sundance Film 24 SEE: Seeds and Cells Festival. (JH) MARCH 30 - APRIL 6, 2017 N-O

Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, One Potato, Two Potato bravely takes on the subject of an interracial mar- riage. Divorced mother Julie (Bar- bara Barrie) and her co-worker Frank (Frank Hamilton) slowly fall in love in a small northeastern Ohio town. Despite objections from friends and family, the couple get married and have a child of their own while Frank becomes a father to Ellen Mary, Julie’s daughter from her previous One Potato, Two Potato marriage. When Julie’s self-centered FRI, MAR 31 • 6:00 PM and deeply neurotic ex-husband Joe CHAZEN MUSEUM OF ART (Richard Mulligan) returns, he fi les for custody of Ellen Mary upon learn- LARRY PEERCE SCHEDULED TO ATTEND ing that Julie has married a “negro” SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Narrative • USA • 1964 • 35mm • 83 MIN and the case is brought before a judge. Director: Larry Peerce; Screenwriter: Orville Cast with good, but unglamorous ac- Obit H. Hampton, Raphael Hayes; Producer: Sam tors and fi lmed on location in Paines- Weston; Editor: Robert Fritch; Cast: Barbara ville, Ohio, One Potato, Two Potato is SAT, APR 1 • 12:30 PM Barrie, Bernie Hamilton, Richard Mulligan, Robert Earl Jones, Marti Maricka; Cinematographer: one of the most authentic fi lms of its BARRYMORE THEATRE Andrew Laszlo; Music: Gerald Fried era. Director Larry Peerce, who will Opening Night TUE, APR 4 • 2:30 PM SECTION: AMERICAN VISIONS, be with us for this special screening, SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 RESTORATIONS AND REDISCOVERIES earns our emotional response the Celebration A groundbreaking independent hard way by never sentimentalizing MADISON PREMIERE • Documentary THU, MAR 30 • 5:30 PM movie released the same year that the characters or the situation. (JH) • USA • 2016 • DCP • 96 MIN BARRYMORE THEATRE Director: Vanessa Gould; Producer: Caitlin Mae Burke, Vanessa Gould; Editor: Kristin We are back at The Barrymore The- Bye; Cinematographer: Ben Wolf atre for the second year in a row, SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL where we hope you will help us kick DOCUMENTARIES off the Festival in grand Wisco style. Nocturama The New York Times obituary writers Our evening will start at 5:30pm with come in for a welcome pre-mortem a reception in the Barrymore lobby TUE, APR 4 • 7:45 PM profi le in this fascinating, surprisingly featuring music, food, a champagne SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 lively documentary. None deny it’s a toast, and cash bar. At 7pm join us in WED, APR 5 • 12:30 PM strange beat: as one puts it, “I show the Theatre proper for our Golden SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 up in the morning and say, ‘Who’s Badger Awards ceremony, your fi rst MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • dead?’” But as their writers will tell look at our Festival trailer, and our Belgium, France, Germany • 2016 • DCP • you, obituaries are much more fo- opening night program: Transmissions French with English subtitles • 130 MIN cused on elucidating lives lived than From the Heartland – Wisconsin’s Director: Bertrand Bonello; Screenwriter: wallowing in the fi nal moments. As Own Short Documentaries. After the Bertrand Bonello; Producer: Edouard Weil, Alice Girard; Editor: Fabrice Rouaud; Cast: Finnegan evidence, director Vanessa Gould movies we will have a special Q&A Oldfi eld, Vincent Rottiers, Hamza Meziani, Manal (Between the Folds, WFF 2009) cre- session with fi lmmakers and Whad’ya Issa, Martin Guyot, Jamil Mc Craven, Rabah Nait ates vivid miniature portraits that Know?’s Michael Feldman. After that, Oufella, Laure Valentinelli, Ilias Le Doré, Robin Goldbronn, Luis Rego, Hermine Karagheuz, illustrate the breadth of obituaries take a walk on the wild side with us to Adèle Haenel; Cinematographer: Léo Hinstin the paper has run: the forgotten ad- the Harmony Bar and Grill for a disco SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA venturer, the world-famous author, dance party with local favorites, VO5. A master class in fi lm style and an the campaign strategist, the sole One Week and a Day Purchase an all-inclusive ticket for exemplar of radical cinema, this plaintiff of Brown v. Board of Educa- Shavua Ve Yom $25 or skip the reception and come spellbinding provocation is a virtuosic tion. Through interviews with Times for the Awards, Films, and Dance fusion of sound and image. On the writers like Margalit Fox (who speaks FRI, MAR 31 • 12:00 PM Party for $15 (purchase this option streets and subways of Paris, a group with envy-inducing eloquence), we SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 under Transmissions From the Heart- of attractive young people are up to come away with better insight into SUN, APR 2 • 1:45 PM land). Let’s get this Festival started the specifi cs of this odd profession, something. Moving with exacting BARRYMORE THEATRE right, right? and a broader sense of how everyone’s purpose, they glide through the city, WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • Israel • 2016 • DCP communicating fervently on burner life can be measured and remem- • Hebrew with English subtitles • 98 MIN bered. “One of the few great fi lms phones they discreetly dispose of. Director: Asaph Polonsky; Screenwriter: Asaph Polonsky; Producer: Saar Yogev, Leaping backward and forward in I’ve seen about writing… celebrates Naomi Levari; Editor: Tali Halter Shenkar; Cast: Shai Avivi, Evgenia Dodina, Tomer Kapon, Sharon Alexander, Uri Gvariel, Carmit Mesilati-Kaplan, Alona time, director Betrand Bonello ratch- human achievement and human strangeness. It effuses an obit writer’s Shauloff; Cinematographer: Mosh Mishali; Music: Tamar Aphek, Ran Bagno ets up the tension until it explodes SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA at the fi lm’s midpoint, when the intellectual curiosity and itch for a A grieving dad takes refuge in his son’s pot stash in this superb dram- timelines converge and their plan is good story. A handsome ode to life edy, which matches big laughs with genuine pathos. It’s the last day unleashed. In the fi lm’s second half, itself” (Soheil Rezayazdi, Filmmaker of his adult son’s shiva, and Eyal (comedian Shai Avivi, known as “the the group reconvenes at a depart- Magazine). (MK) Larry David of Israel”) is all too ready to kick the mourners out of his ment store after hours. Overnight, house. Picking up around the hospice, he comes across a leftover bag of this decadent hideaway becomes a MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG medical marijuana, and enlists his son’s stoner friend to help him blaze utopian playground, as the kids crank up. His wife, Vicky, looks askance at their adolescent hijinks, and copes up the music and give themselves by attempting to get back to her normal life, with mixed results. Per- over to consumerist unreality. Out- fectly embodied by Avivi and actress Evgenia Dodina, Eyal and (espe- side these plate glass windows, they cially) Vicky are such richly realized characters that it is a pleasure just are notorious. Bonello is fi ring on all to spend the fi lm’s single-day timespan in their company. Writer/direc- cylinders here, marrying dynamic tor Asaph Polonsky has crafted a hangout movie that becomes sneakily Steadicam shots to an absolutely killer moving, locating mordant humor in life and death. The soundtrack soundtrack. “In every respect, Noctur- gets an extra boost from choice songs by Tel Aviv indie rocker Tamar ama is a bravura feat of fi lmmaking… Aphek. Winner, Best Israeli Feature, Best First Film, and Best Script, a modern-day answer to Weekend” Once Upon a 2016 Jerusalem Film Festival. Audience Award, AFI Fest. (MK) (Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, The AV Club). Best Undistributed Film of 2016, Vil- Blue Moon Presented with support from the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies. lage Voice. (MK) SEE: Shorter and Sweeter 25 P WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL

a part-time New Jersey barmaid who dreams of hip-hop superstar- dom. Living with her hard-drinking mother, Barb (Bridget Everett) and her foul-mouthed but loving Nana (Raging Bull’s Cathy Moriarty), Patti is hoping to break out of a cycle that makes it hard to keep up with Nana’s medical bills. The un-encouraging Barb had her own musical aspira- tions crushed, which she reminds Patti of every time she shows up to Patti Cake$ sing (beautifully) at the bar’s karaoke THU, APR 6 • 8:30 PM night. With her rap partner and best SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 & 5 friend Jheri (Sid Dhanajay), Patti is looking for “fire beats” for their WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • USA • 2017 • DCP • 108 MIN rhymes and when they meet a death Director: Geremy Jasper; Screenwriter: Geremy speed metal musician named Basterd Jasper; Producer: Michael Gottwald, Noah Stahl, (Mamoudou Athie), the opportunity Dan Janvey, Rodrigo Teixeira, Daniela Taplin to make musical alchemy has ar- Parting Lundberg, Chris Columbus; Editor: Brad Turner; Cast: Danielle Macdonald, Bridget Everett, rived. Part Hustle & Flow and part 8 Personal Shopper SAT, APR 1 • 1:30 PM Siddharth Dhananjay, Mamoudou Athie, Cathy Mile, Patti Cake$ finds its own voice SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 Moriarty; Cinematographer: Federico Cesca through an authentic, vividly realized FRI, MAR 31 • 9:00 PM SECTION: AMERICAN VISIONS, CLOSING NIGHT SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 THU, APR 6 • 4:30 PM Jersey milieu and a host of unique A warm-hearted crowd-pleaser at characters and memorable perfor- SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 SUN, APR 2 • 6:00 PM this year’s Sundance Film Festival, mances. Writer-director Geremy Jas- SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • Patti Cake$ follows Patti “Killa P” Afghanistan, Iran • 2016 • DCP • Dari, per, making his first feature, has also WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • Persian with English subtitles • 78 MIN Dombrowski (Danielle MacDonald), written the hook-filled songs (JH) France • 2016 • DCP • 105 MIN Director: Navid Mahmoudi; Screenwriter: Navid Director: Olivier Assayas; Screenwriter: Olivier Mahmoudi; Producer: Jamshid Mahmoudi; Assayas; Producer: Charles Gillibert; Editor: Editor: Jamshid Mahmoudi; Cast: Reza Ahmadi, Marion Monnier; Cast: Kristen Stewart, Lars Fereshteh Hosseini, Behrang Alavi, Nazanin Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Anders Danielsen Lie, Paris 05:59: Bayati; Cinematographer: Koohyar Kalari Ty Olwin; Cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux Théo & Hugo SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA Fereshteh and Nabi just want to be Kristen Stewart gives her best perfor- FRI, MAR 31 • 9:15 PM together. They’ve already been sepa- mance yet in this mesmerizing Parisian SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 rated once, when Fereshteh’s family ghost story. As a personal shopper, MON, APR 3 • 8:45 PM fled Afghanistan to find refuge Teh- Maureen spends her days motoring SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 ran, leaving Nabi behind. Undeterred, between high-end boutiques on her Nabi illegally crosses into Iran, to find scooter, expertly plucking gowns and WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • France • 2016 • DCP • French his love and migrate to Turkey for the baubles for her celebrity client. But with English subtitles • 97 MIN promise of a better life in Europe. But the real reason she’s haunting Paris is Director: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques as refugees, Fereshteh and Nabi know to search for a sign from her recently Martineau; Screenwriter: Olivier Ducastel, deep down that “running away is our deceased twin brother. They shared Jacques Martineau; Producer: Emmanuel Chaumet; Editor: Pierre Deschamps; fate till the end.” Unfolding over the extrasensory abilities, and pledged Cast: Geoffrey Couët, François Nambot; course of a single day, this gripping to send one another signals from the Cinematographer: Manuel Marmier film illustrates the inconceivable dif- afterlife. Bringing Gothic horror into SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA ficulties of escape, bringing a human the smartphone era, director Olivier Before Sunset meets Blue is the Warm- face to a vast humanitarian crisis. Assayas (The Clouds of Sils Maria) est Color in this steamy realtime First-time director Navid Mahmoudi Person to Person conjures an eerie new atmosphere: romance. An attractive young couple knows these tensions well—he was MON, APR 3 • 8:00 PM call it haute-couture haunted-house. falls for one another the course of a born in Afghanistan and grew up In performance and direction, Stew- SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 single night in the City of Lights. Théo in Iran—and Parting is powered by art and Assayas sidestep paranormal and Hugo bike and stroll through the an on-the-ground authenticity that TUE, APR 4 • 12:00 PM conventions to arrive at something al- hushed, lamplit streets of predawn extends to his cast. The two lead per- SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 together more absorbing and scary. To Paris, pausing every so often to make formers were recruited from refugee DIRECTOR DUSTIN GUY DEFA SCHEDULED TO APPEAR wit: where most contemporary ghost out. But what separates these two camps near Tehran; appearing in her MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • USA • 2017 • DCP • 84 MIN stories take ridiculous pains to separate from your typical onscreen couple is feature film, Fereshteh Hosseini won Director: Dustin Guy Defa; Screenwriter: Dustin Guy Defa; Producer: Sara characters from their cell phones, Per- that that, before even speaking to one the Best Actress award at the Mar- Murphy, Toby Halbrooks, James Johnston; Editor: Dustin Guy Defa; Cast: sonal Shopper’s audacious centerpiece another, they’ve already gone all the Abbi Jacobson, Michael Cera, Tavi Gevinson, Philip Baker Hall, Bene rakech Film Festival. Parting was Coopersmith, George Sample III; Cinematographer: Ashley Connor is an extended text message conversa- way. The film opens on Théo and Hu- Afghanistan’s official submission for tion that permanently raises the bar for SECTION: AMERICAN VISIONS go’s meeting at a sex club, and the first the 2017 Best Foreign Film Oscar, and depicting technology on screen. “Five eighteen minutes are wordlessly (and won a Special Jury Prize at the Busan A series of good-hearted New Yorkers attempt to make sense of their stars. Captivating, edge-of-your seat lives in this amiably loopy comedy. Tracing multiple characters over explicitly) devoted to their erotic con- Film Festival. (MK) strange… pure Hitchcockian brilliance” nection, a bravura sequence as sexy as a single day, it unfurls with a breeziness akin to flipping through a (The Guardian). Winner, Best Director, World Cinema Day selection. Presented with short story collection. Two novice crime journalists (Broad City’s anything you’ll see onscreen this year. support from the Institute for Regional and 2016 Cannes Film Festival. (MK) When they decide to leave together, International Studies and the Center for South Asia. Abbi Jacobson and Michael Cera) get wrapped up in a murder mystery the conversation starts flowing, and involving a grouchy clockmaker (Philip Baker Hall). Meanwhile, an Paris 05:59 expands to consider all outspoken young feminist (Rookie Magazine mogul Tavi Gevinson) manner of nascent coupledom, both tries to break out of her rut as a third wheel. Across town, an earnest universal and specific to the gay ex- record collector seeks justice after getting scammed, while his room- perience. “A remarkably empathetic, mate tries to make amends after betraying the love of his life. Shot on big-hearted and love-struck film… ar- beautiful 16mm film and set to a choice soundtrack of vintage Numero ticulates the ability for sex to produce Group soul, Person to Person has an analog warmth that perfectly suits just a little more love in the world, its loose groove. With its impeccable cast and refreshing, freeform for a moment or an eternity” (Katie energy, Dustin Guy Defa’s feature-length expansion of his award win- Walsh, Los Angeles Times). Winner ning short (which played WFF 2014) brings a welcome 1970s sensibili- of the Audience Award at the 2016 ty to today’s independent film landscape. “An absolute triumph. There Berlin Film Festival Teddy Awards hasn’t been a New York-set film this warm and fun since Frances Ha” A Place in the Garden Patti (Exclaim). 2017 Sundance, SXSW Film Festivals. (MK) MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG for LGBTQ films. Viewer discretion SEE: Transmissions from 26 advised. (MK) SEE: Speaking in Tongues the Heartland MARCH 30 - APRIL 6, 2017 P-R

fan. This Golden Badger-winning doc- umentary reveals what Cliff does when he isn’t dressed in cardinal and white. Cliff, Superfan is a charming doc with enormous heart. Viewers will be in- spired to get up after the screening and drive to Stanford just to spend some time with Cliff in the bleachers. (KJ) The Bear and the Owl JAN JENSEN AND MARK DAVIS Planting Seeds: SCHEDULED TO APPEAR WORLD PREMIERE • Documentary • Milwaukee’s Young USA • 2016 • HD Projection • 46 MIN A Quiet Passion Director: Mark Davis; Cast: Joni Lillard, Debbie SUN, APR 2 • 6:30 PM Farmers Fischer, Steve Vorass Sr, Steve Vorass Jr, Angie Kastenholz, Richard Lillard, Mackenna Lillard, Jeff UNION SOUTH MARQUEE SEE: Seeds and Cells Jensen, Jay Jensen, Jan Jensen, David Jensen, Linda Beals, Jean Schrader, Barbara Hillestad MON, APR 3 • 12:30 PM SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 This Clinton, Wisconsin documentary shines with pure Midwestern warmth DIRECTOR TERENCE DAVIES SCHEDULED TO APPEAR APRIL 2 ONLY as the central narrative about the rela- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • tionship between an ailing young girl Belgium, UK • 2016 • DCP • 125 MIN and a kindhearted stranger radiates Director: Terence Davies; Screenwriter: out to tell not only their story, but the Terence Davies; Producer: Roy Boulter, stories of an entire community affected Sol Papadopoulos; Editor: Pia Di Ciaula; Cast: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith by an extended act of kindness and em- Carradine, Jodhi May, Duncan Duff; pathy. The Bear and the Owl is a gener- Cinematographer: Florian Hoffmeister ous and thoughtful documentary about SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA WISCONSIN’S OWN SHORT DOCUMENTARIES an exceedingly generous and thought- The life of Emily Dickinson is given ful man and the lives he touched. (BR) an appropriately poetic and moving Portraits and Pictures dramatization in the latest fi lm by master fi lmmaker Terence Davies. As from Wisconsin’s Own played by Cynthia Nixon, the reclu- SUN, APR 2 • 1:30 PM sive Dickinson is shown as a cease- The Rehearsal UNION SOUTH MARQUEE less soul searcher who rarely left her family home and wrote nearly 1,800 FRI, MAR 31 • 8:15 PM FILMMAKERS SCHEDULED TO APPEAR poems, though only a dozen were UNION SOUTH MARQUEE 82 MIN published in her lifetime. While she SAT, APR 1 • 11:15 AM SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN, SHORTS SERIES led a deeply introverted existence, SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 If you need to have your heart warmed Dickinson’s relationships with her ALISON MACLEAN SCHEDULED TO APPEAR (and maybe even get in a good cry), this family, particularly her father (Keith MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • New Zealand • 2016 • DCP • 102 MIN is the program for you. The subjects of Quest Carradine) and sister Lavinia (Jen- these three inspiring documentaries Director: Alison Maclean; Screenwriter: Alison Maclean, Emily Perkins; FRI, MAR 31 • 2:30 PM nifer Ehle), deeply informed her Producer: Trevor Haysom, Bridget Ikin; Editor: Jonathan Woodford- use their strengths to encourage oth- SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 worldview and her work. The way Robinson; Cast: James Rolleston, Kerry Fox, Alice Englert, Ella ers in surprising, creative ways. You’ll families shape us is a subject that Da- Edward, Kieran Charnock; Cinematographer: Andrew Commis see one of the most committed fans SAT, APR 1 • 2:00 PM vies has explored often from his 1988 SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA you can imagine, a dedicated creator SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 feature debut Distant Voices, Still Lives This original and frequently surprising drama set among a group of elaborate greeting cards, and a mul- WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary to 2015’s Sunset Song (WFF 2016). Da- of acting students is based on the fi rst novel by Man Booker prize- • USA • 2017 • DCP • 105 MIN titalented artist who bravely channels vies’ principal triumph in A Quiet Pas- winner Eleanor Catton (The Luminaries). Stanley (James Rolleston her struggles into gripping poetry. We Director: Jonathan Olshefski; Producer: Sabrina Schmidt Gordon; Editor: Lindsay sion, however, is his exciting integra- of 2011 WFF selection Boy), a talented and eager young student at dare you to leave the theater without a Utz; Cinematographer: Jonathan Olshefski tion of Dickinson’s written words into a prestigious New Zealand drama school, is facing pressure from smile on your face. SECTION: AMERICAN VISIONS the story, which shows how she used Hannah (Kerry Fox of An Angel at My Table) the demanding and This powerful documentary chronicles language to transcend the often mun- sometimes cruel head of the school. Shy and self-doubting, Stanley Brown Girl the Obama years as experienced by one dane details of her limited life. “No proves to be the perfect victim/benefactor for Hannah’s sometimes VIOLET JINQI WANG SCHEDULED TO APPEAR black family in north Philadelphia. Like fi lmmaker can create a convincing inspiring, sometimes devastating methods. As Stanley’s confi dence USA • 2016 • HD Projection • 10 MIN everyone else in their neighborhood, portrait of an artist without being an as an actor gains momentum, he also begins to fall for a local girl Director: Jinqi (Violet) Wang the Raineys are scraping by. But in their artist of comparable imagination. Da- whose family is in the midst of a public scandal. When Stanley’s This short documentary by Violet basement is a passion project: an elabo- vies has been, for thirty years, among classmates suggest dramatizing the scandal for their year-end per- Wang (Infurmary, WFF ’16) focuses on rate recording studio, where neighbors the world’s best fi lmmakers, certainly formance, he is faced with a profound moral quandary. The newest Gretchen Carvajal, a Filipino-Ameri- gather to fl ex their creativity and not as concealed or unheralded in his feature from Alison Maclean (Jesus’ Son, Crush), The Rehearsal fi n d s can artist and UW-Madison student. dream of rising up in America’s class time as Dickinson was in hers, but not a number of inventive ways to explore the intersections of art and Through her spoken word poetry and system. Director Jonathan Olshefski nearly receiving the acclaim or the community. While it asks diffi cult and resonant questions about printmaking, she examines questions initially set out to document this unique support that he has deserved. A Quiet the responsibility of the artist, Maclean provides a series of in- of identity and belonging, confront- community haven, but over nearly a Passion will take its place as one of his triguingly conceived and edited sequences that inspire us to search ing the past and present diffi culties of decade of fi lming, his attention shifts to fi nest creations, as one of the great for the answers. (JH) feeling like an outsider in the country the Raineys’ daughter PJ, who grows up movies of the time” (Richard Brody, that she calls home. (MSJ) right before our eyes. Culled from over The New Yorker). (JH) MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG 300 hours of footage, Quest is littered Cliff, Superfan! with the kind of unforgettable details DIANE MOY QUON SCHEDULED TO APPEAR that can only be captured with years- long dedication, earning critical com- MIDWEST PREMIERE • Documentary • USA • 2016 • HD Projection • 26 MIN parisons to Boyhood. Bookended by the Director: Diane Quon; Producer: Diane Quon; 2008 and 2016 elections, the Raineys’ Editor: Katerina Simic; Cinematographer: journey naturally refl ects and reckons Emily Fraser; Music: Enoch Kim with many of America’s most pressing Clifford Hayashi is Stanford Univer- social issues. Encapsulating the aspira- sity’s biggest sports fan. He’s attended tions and frustrations of the Obama era, over 4,000 games in the past 22 years, Quest provides a valuable missive from cheering on the individual members of the intersection of hope and reality. every Stanford team like they were his “Incredibly timely and timeless.” (Non- Ralph Riceballs own children. But Cliff isn’t just a super fi c s). 2017 Sundance Film Festival. (MK) SEE: Drifting Towards the Crescent SEE: Short and Sweet 27 S WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL

MILWAUKEE STORIES Seeds and Cells The Salesman SAT, APR 1 • 10:00 AM UW CINEMATHEQUE Forushande 75 MIN SAT, APR 1 • 8:00 PM SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN BARRYMORE THEATRE Though they vary in tone and topic, THU, APR 6 • 12:30 PM these two Milwaukee documentaries SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 share a tenacious sense of hope, even in difficult circumstances. The inner- MADISON PREMIERE • Narrative • France, Iran • 2016 • DCP • Persian with English subtitles • 125 MIN city neighborhoods in these films face STATEMENT FROM uniquely challenging, systemic road- Director: Asghar Farhadi; Screenwriter: Asghar Farhadi; Producer: Asghar Farhadi, THE GOLDEN BADGER JURY Alexandre Mallet-Guy; Editor: Hayedeh Safiyari; Cast: Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, blocks, yet the organizations and indi- Babak Karimi, Farid Sajjadi Hosseini, Mina Sadati; Cinematographer: Hossein Jafarian viduals in Planting Seeds and Milwaukee SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA 53206 fight hard for opportunity and Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, The change. After watching this powerful As always, this year’s Wisconsin’s Own selections comprise Salesman is a powerful, suspenseful and troubling look at how a mysteri- pair of films, you’ll want to join them. the best filmmaking from artists or films with Wisconsin ties. ous act of violence leads to a growing atmosphere of distrust and tension Planting Seeds: Milwaukee’s As always, these films featured distinguished voices and between a husband and wife. While in rehearsal for a theater production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, married actors Emad (Shahab Young Farmers confident storytelling. And as always, nowhere is this better Hosseini) and Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti) first have their lives upended JOHN FLAIG SCHEDULED TO APPEAR represented than in 2017’s Golden Badger winners. when their Tehran apartment building almost collapses and they are WORLD PREMIERE • Documentary • forced to move to shabbier dwellings. While Emad is away, the arrival USA • 2016 • HD Projection • 23 MIN Director: John Flaig For 22 years, Clifford Hayashi has attended over 4,000 games of an unknown intruder leaves Rana injured, shaken, and left with con- flicting memories of the events. Emad, confused, angry and increasingly A struggling yet hopeful inner city at Stanford University, becoming, as CLIFF, SUPERFAN! so obsessed with what happened, independently begins to investigate the Milwaukee neighborhood seeks to lovingly shows, a grassroots mascot along the way. Ripon identity of the criminal. Meanwhile, the fracturing of the artistic cou- bond the community and plant the ple’s relationship seems to provide added resonance to their portrayals of seeds of entrepreneurism in its youth College alum Diane Moy Quon’s snapshot of fandom blossoms Willy and Linda Loman. Internationally celebrated writer/director As- through the use of an innovative urban with her subject’s enthusiasm, documenting Hayashi and his ghar Farhadi once again employs the masterful storytelling techniques gardening program. John Flaig’s docu- mentary chronicling this program, its other passion as well. Regardless of what’s at stake, CLIFF, he put to use in his other unnerving tales of domestic disruption like Fireworks Wednesday, About Elly and his first Oscar winner, A Separation. young participants, and its architect, SUPERFAN! is through and through an earnest exploration of Farhadi knows precisely where to put a camera and his innate sense of Nick DeMarsh (a UWM graduate stu- the value of community. knowing what to show us and what not to show us keeps us on the edge dent, Dept. of Urban Planning) is an entertaining, homespun delight. (BR) of our seats. Best Screenplay & Best Actor, 2016 Cannes Film Festival.(JH) Through the lens of paranoid schizophrenia, LINGUA Milwaukee 53206 ABSENTIA depicts the real-life plight of Abby, a teenager MADISON PREMIERE • Documentary • 1930s, an indigenous Sami girl from USA • 2016 • HD Projection • 52 MIN battling a cancer that will leave her unable to speak. Northern Scandinavia is sent to a Director: Keith McQuirter; Producer: CarolAnne Swedish boarding school where she is Dolan, Nick Stuart, Keith McQuirter, Adam Miller, Jeremy Bessoff and UW-Milwaukee graduate Kate Raney’s Katie Taber; Editor: Paul Lovelace, Jason Pollard; expected to assimilate into “normal” Cast: Beverly Walker, Dennis Walton, Chad animations tap into a downward spiral of anxiety and Swedish society. Forcibly separated Wilson; Cinematographer: Derek Wiesehahn depression, showing firsthand the devastation of sickness from her mother, teenage Elle Marja Milwaukee 53206 examines the most and crushing isolation that follows. This is illness, illustrated. (Lene Cecilia Sparrok) and other Sami incarcerated zip code in the country, children are given traditional les- through the stories of three people sons, but they are also put through a whose lives have been permanently The collective effort of 65 fourth-graders, DAEDALUS AND series of racist and humiliating tests changed by the U.S. penal system. ICARUS recreates its titular myth with relief-print characters, by pseudoscientific phrenologists who Beverly Walker fiercely fights for the Sami Blood release of her husband who has been hand-drawn construction paper sets, and a knack for comedic are attempting to identify which traits Sameblod distinguish the Sami from “regular” imprisoned for 21 years, while attempt- relief. The story of Daedalus and Icarus warns that we must Swedes. Unexpectedly, Elle Marja ing to raise her children in a positive, understand our limits, and it is not without irony that this FRI, MAR 31 • 1:15 PM finds herself curious about and ex- hopeful environment. Dennis Walton UW CINEMATHEQUE cited by her new surroundings. Soon advocates for families experiencing the reimagining from Madison’s Crestwood Elementary knows no effects of incarceration through the SUN, APR 2 • 6:00 PM though, her eagerness to please her Milwaukee Fatherhood Initiative, and bounds. With musical assistance from the school’s fifth-grade teachers and her romantic interest in SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 Chad Wilson, a graduate of the Milwau- class, DAEDALUS AND ICARUS is the greater sum of its parts WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative • a local middle-class boy threaten to kee Fatherhood program, struggles to Denmark, Norway, Sweden • 2016 • DCP • cut her off forever from her heritage and an inspiring testament to the power of imagination. Swedish with English subtitles • 110 MIN support his family and find employment and her family. Sensitively told and after leaving the criminal justice sys- Director: Amanda Kernell; Screenwriter: Amanda with a nice eye for period details, Kernell; Producer: Lars G Lindström; Editor: tem. The subjects of Milwaukee 53206 Anders Skov; Cast: Lene Cecilia Sparrok, Sami Blood tells of a shameful chapter face an often uncaring, unforgiving sys- Mia Erika Sparrok, Maj Doris Rimpi, Julius in Scandinavian history that serves tem, but they refuse to surrender hope. Fleischanderl, Olle Sarri, Hanna Alström, Malin DAVID KLEIN Crépin, Andreas Kundler, Ylva Gustafsson; as a reminder of the number of white While confronting complex, intercon- KRISTIN CATALANO Cinematographer: Sophia Olsson, Petrus Sjövik cultures here in North America and nected societal issues like poverty, un- SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL on other continents who attempted to employment, and crime, this poignant, ERIC J. NELSON CINEMA, NEW WOMEN DIRECTORS force assimilation of the land’s indig- urgent film maintains its dedication to

MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG In this compelling first feature from enous people. 2016 Toronto Film Fes- personal stories and the enormous im- 28 director Amanda Kernell set in the tival. 2017 Sundance Film Festival. (JH) pact they can achieve. (MSJ) MARCH 30 - APRIL 6, 2017 S

SHORT-FILM PROGRAM Konigiri-Kun Shopping Once Upon a Blue Moon Japan • 2016 • No Dialogue • 5 MIN United Kingdom • 2015 • No Dialogue • 3 MIN Shorter and Sweeter Director: Mari Miyazawa Director: Steve Boot SAT, APR 1 • 11:00 AM Konigiri-Kun, the small rice ball is A comical stop motion animation about UNION SOUTH MARQUEE back. This time he sets out to shop an isolated planet, a lonely blue creature (KK) 64 MIN for sesame seeds and has many ad- and a robot on an important mission. SECTION: BIG SCREENS, LITTLE ventures along the way. Come for the FOLKS, SHORTS SERIES story and stay for the amazing new The Sled Join us for this inspiring family friendly sushi-animation from Mari Miyazawa Belchonok i sanki (Twins in Bakery, WFF 2015 and Koni- program of award winning short films Russia • 2016 • No Dialogue • 3 MIN giri-Kun, WFF 2016) (KK) from all around the world. Introduce Director: Olesya Shchukina children to a variety of cinematic styles. A little squirrel finds something he Together on the big screen we meet a The Little Bird and the Caterpillar has never seen before. Experience a squirrel that discovers sledding, a lone- Der Kleine Vogel und die Raupe wonderful new short film by the di- ly alien, a whale and mole, a leaning Switzerland • 2017 • No Dialogue • 4 MIN rector of The Elephant and The Bicycle tower and a fish that must be rescued, Director: Lena Von Döhren (WFF 2016). (KK) a wolf that needs hiding, a girl that makes amazing dresses and a boy who While a little bird is resting high up in Tower enjoys music. You will also revisit two its tree an unexpected guest shows up. old friends from the past, the little rice The brash caterpillar is keen on de- Tornis ball and the little bird. We think view- vouring the green leaves that the little NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE • Latvia ers of all ages will enjoy this program bird has cared for so tenderly. While • 2014 • No Dialogue • 8 MIN SHORT-FILM PROGRAM but we recommend it for ages 5 to 8. fighting, the two fail to notice that Director: Janis Cimmermanis someone else follows them, and this While tourists are viewing the Lean- Spring Jam Alike character is not an herbivore. Lena ing Tower of Pisa, it suddenly begins Short and Sweet von Döhren’s chirping hero graces our New Zealand • 2016 • No Dialogue • 5 MIN Spain • 2016 • HD Projection to crumble. The tourists efforts to FRI, MAR 31 • 11:00 AM • No Dialogue • 8 MIN Big Screens for the third time. (KK) save the tower becomes a globalized Director: Ned Wenlock UNION SOUTH MARQUEE Director: Rafa Cano Méndez, Daniel Martínez Lara television event. (KK) A young stag, lacking impressive 70 MIN Copi wants to teach his son, Paste, The Little Seed antlers, knows he needs to improvise SECTION: BIG SCREENS, LITTLE the right way in their busy life. But La petit pousse Water Path for a Fish FOLKS, SHORTS SERIES sweet music if he wants to succeed in at what cost? When Paste loses his France • 2015 • No Dialogue • 10 MIN Camino de agua para un pez This family friendly program offers life. Don’t miss what comes to the res- happiness, Copi realizes that his right Director: Chaïtane Conversat Spain • 2016 • DCP • No Dialogue • 8 MIN award winning short films from all cue in this great adventure from New way, may not be the right one for this Director: Mercedes Marro around the world and introduces chil- Zealand. (KK) son after all. Winner of 69 film festival To make her own pretty dresses, a dren to a variety of cinematic styles. awards including Spain’s Goya Award young girl traps floral patterns with Nine-year-old Oscar tries to save a Join us in experiencing this inspiring Stone Soup for Best Animated Short Film. (KK) magical sheets. One day, a seed drops goldfish through an adventure full of into her mouth and a whole new ad- mysterious challenges. Two hungry program of short films together and La Soupe au caillou on the big screen. Together, we will Cloudberry venture begins. (KK) cats prove formidable adversaries, but Belgium • 2016 • French • 10 MIN the main problem is that the city is learn what it takes to make stone soup, Moroshka how riceballs can break the ice, what Director: Clémentine Robach The Mole and the Earthworm suffering a drought! (KK) Tummies start rumbling as evening Russia • 2016 • HD Projection happens when you spend an afternoon • No Dialogue • 8 MIN Der Maulwurf und der Regenwurm with your dad in a Netherland Park or falls. All villagers are glued to their Whale Director: Polina Minchenok Germany • 2015 • DCP • No Dialogue • 3 MIN in a city in Slovenia. We will also get TVs for the recipe of the day - Stone Wal Director: Johannes Schiehsl to meet a really inventive stag from Soup. But then there is a power out- A whole village is scared of a big wolf, and while they search for him, a little Germany • 2015 • DCP • No Dialogue • 4 MIN New Zealand. Recommended for ages age…Another adventure from the di- Everyone but little Mole has a friend girl is brave enough to help him. She to play with. That makes little Mole Director: Maryna Shchipak 8+ as some shorts are subtitled. rector of The Mitten (WFF 2016) (KK) hides him and cares for the wolf’s really sad. But there will be a happy The huge whale is sad because every- King’s Day Way of Giants wounded paw. While he devours her ending under the molehill, and it body is scared of him. But then he has pancakes, he surprisingly leaves her starts with a fat worm or what looks a brilliant idea... (KK) Koningsdag Caminho dos Gigantes sheep alone. (KK) like one. (KK) Presented with support from SSM Health. The Netherlands • 2016 • 24 MIN Brazil • 2016 • DCP • No Dialogue • 12 MIN Director: Steven Wouterlood Director: Alois Di Leo It’s King’s Day in the Netherlands and In a forest of gigantic trees, Oquirá, everyone goes to the park to have fun. a six-year old indigenous girl, will Well, not everyone. Younes’s dad is challenge her destiny and learn to un- making him stay at their stall to sell derstand the cycle of life. This poetic car accessories, while Kelvin’s aggres- search for purpose and reason, comes sive dad makes him sing so he can sell to life not only through vivid animation, CDs. Over the course of the afternoon, Younes and Kelvin discover they have but also through the soundtrack provid- ed by Tito la Rosa, a master of ancient a lot in common. (KK) Andean music. Winner of numerous Riceballs awards, including Best Animated Short Film at the 2016 Chicago International Australia • 2016 • 11 MIN Children’s Film Festival. (KK) Director: Shingo Usami; Screenwriter: Shingo Usami; Producer: Hiroshi Kasuga, Shingo Usami; Editor: Romain Mongin; Cast: Shingo A Well Spent Afternoon MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG Usami, TATSUO, Cat Martin, Daniel Krige, Yoko Nishimura-Parke; Cinematographer: Ella Gibbins Dobro unovceno popoldne Since the passing of his Australian wife, Slovenia • 2016 • 8 MIN Kenji has been doing his best to bring Director: Martin Turk; Cast: Primoz up their only son, Josh. But without Pirnat, Julijan Weiss Turk her, the father-son duo is not finding it After failing yet another job interview, easy to communicate. Should they stay a father spends the afternoon with in Australia or go back to Kenji’s native his young son. While walking around, country, Japan? To distract himself they find a wallet full of money. The from having to make this decision, Ken- father teaches his son the right thing ji starts preparing Josh’s lunchbox ev- that afternoon, but also learns his ery day with the rice balls of his home- land and not the Australian OzEmite own lesson. (KK) sandwiches they’re used to. (KK) Presented with support from SSM Health. 29 S WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL

WISCONSIN’S OWN SHORTS Speaking in Tongues SAT, APR 1 • 2:30 PM UNION SOUTH MARQUEE 81 MIN SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN In 81 minutes jam-packed with excel- lent shorts, this eclectic program will take you to the wilds of West Texas, Silently Steal Away the streets of Paris, the dive bars of Wisconsin, and more. No matter where SEE: Transmissions from The Sled they are, whether they’re hunting boars the Heartland SEE: Shorter and Sweeter or time capsules, fighting cancer or coworkers, the characters in these 8 shorts struggle to communicate with others and sometimes themselves. With experimental reflections, paper- cut documentary, and captivating dra- mas, there’s a little bit of everything in this block of Wisconsin’s Own favorites. LI Breathe In Breathe Out of a woman conflicted with the idea of motherhood and what to expect from LAURA REICH AND WILLA SONG Inspirer Expirer (KJ) SCHEDULED TO APPEAR the future. MIDWEST PREMIERE • Experimental • SACHIN DHARWADKER SCHEDULED TO APPEAR USA • 2016 • HD Projection • 2 MIN Lingua Absentia MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • Director: Laura Reich; Screenwriter: Paula KATE RANEY AND JEREMY BESSOFF USA • 2016 • HD Projection • French Helmstedt; Cast: Ines Smudja, Lucile SCHEDULED TO APPEAR with English subtitles • 5 MIN Lempérière; Cinematographer: Haley NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE • Animation Christensen; Music: Halynn Batterman Director: Sachin Dharwadker; Screenwriter: • USA • 2016 • HD Projection • 10 MIN Sachin Dharwadker; Producer: Joshua Laura Reich (Bear Story WFF ’15) Bogatin; Editor: Joan Marie Educate; Cast: Director: Kate Raney, Jeremy Bessoff; makes her directorial debut with this Justine Mallier-Giraud, Florent Chako; Music: Will Soderbergh playfully bizarre, delightfully colorful Cinematographer: Peter Pascucci A young schizophrenic woman, Abby, experimental short. (BR) In French, and shot on location in struggles to accept her cancer diag- Paris, France, this most international of nosis and grueling treatment. Paper- Patti Wisconsin’s Own shorts tells the darkly cut animation offers a subjective, JAMES RUNDE AND CASEY LONG romantic tale of a young couple stuck at imaginative format to interpret the SCHEDULED TO APPEAR a crossroad in their relationship. (BR) voiceover from Abby’s loving mother, WORLD PREMIERE • Animation • USA who describes the difficulties of com- • 2016 • HD Projection • 3 MIN Christina municating with her daughter in this Director: James Runde, Casey Long BILL BEDFORD SCHEDULED TO APPEAR stylistically fascinating, emotionally Patti is a bartender. Patti’s boss tells WORLD PREMIERE • Experimental • challenging film. Winner of a 2017 USA • 2017 • HD Projection • 6 MIN her to train a new employee. Patti Golden Badger award. (MSJ) gets frustrated. Simply stylized black- Director: Bill Bedford and-white animation provides a brief, Bill Bedford’s experimental short is Hunter entertaining window into Patti’s dive- not only an exploration of light, colors XIA MAGNUS SCHEDULED TO ATTEND bar world. (MSJ) and movement, but also a deeply per- WORLD PREMIERE • Narrative • sonal meditation on grief and the loss USA • 2016 • DCP • 23 MIN Fake Jewels of a friend. Tender, intimate, lovely, Director: Xia Magnus, Nathan Hertz; Screenwriter: Xia Magnus; Producer: The Son of Joseph KATE FELDT AND WESLEY MORGAN and haunting. (BR) Alyssa Polk, Joshua Raymond Lee, Nathan SCHEDULED TO APPEAR Le fils de Joseph Hertz; Editor: Joshua Raymond Lee; Cast: WORLD PREMIERE • Narrative • USA Connie Benjamin Wadsworth, Eleanore Pienta FRI, MAR 31 • 6:30 PM • 2016 • HD Projection • 6 MIN JOEL GARBER SCHEDULED TO APPEAR A group boar-hunting trip on Moth- Director: Kate Feldt, Wesley Morgan; SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 WORLD PREMIERE • Narrative • USA Screenwriter: Natalie Morgan, Wesley er’s Day weekend goes terribly wrong • 2016 • HD Projection • 8 MIN MON, APR 3 • 3:45 PM Morgan; Editor: Kate Feldt; Cast: Alyssa for teenage Hunter, who runs away Beasley, Ruilin Huang; Music: Scott Franke Director: Joel Garber; Screenwriter: Joel SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 Garber, Robin Hardy; Producer: Robin from his young mother Teri and into WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Belgium, France • 2016 • DCP If you built a time capsule, would you Hardy, Summre Garber, Tetra Balestri; the West Texas wilderness––a visu- • French with English subtitles • 115 MIN remember where you buried it a decade Editor: Milenko Skoknic; Cast: Robin ally remarkable environment that is Hardy; Cinematographer: Travis Auclair Director: Eugène Green; Screenwriter: Eugène Green; Producer: Francine later? Two girls find themselves in this fully utilized by Hunter’s cinematog- Jacob, Didier Jacob, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne; Editor: Valérie predicament as they search for their box Connie and her partner are trying to raphy. Excellent performances from Loiseleux; Cast: Victor Ezenfis, Natacha Régnier, Fabrizio Rongione, Mathieu recapture their connection while va- Amalric, Maria de Medeiros; Cinematographer: Raphaël O’Byrne of past goodies while rekindling their Benjamin Wadsworth as Hunter and cationing in the desert, but inner dis- SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA long forgotten friendship. Comedic and Eleanore Pienta as Teri anchor this nostalgic, Fake Jewels looks at how the cord invades their best outer efforts. story of a family straining to under- A witty, rigorously stylish morality tale, The Son of Joseph tells of sentimental attachment to objects is no With a keen sense of character and stand the past in order to connect in one teenage boy’s search for a father. 15-year-old Vincent (Victor match for the love of a friend. (KJ) place, Connie explores the thoughts the present. (MSJ) Ezenfis) is an angry young man. He lives with his mother Marie (Natacha Régnier) who has always kept the identity of his biological father a secret. With a little snooping, Vincent discovers his father is the famous Parisian editor Oscar Pormenor (the brilliantly snooty and sleazy Mathieu Amalric). Though he’s profoundly disappointed, Vincent soon meets Joseph (Fabrizio Rongione), Oscar’s good-for- nothing brother, who unexpectedly presents a much more gentle and supportive paternal option. The latest effort from American-born expatriate filmmaker Eugène Green (La Sapienza, WFF 2014), is, like much of his work, filled with references to classical art, music and literature. In one brilliant sequence, Vincent and Oscar act out an inverted version of Caravaggio’s “The Sacrifice of Isaac”, in which it is the son who raises the blade over the father’s head. (JH) Spring Jam MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG 30 SEE: Short and Sweet MARCH 30 - APRIL 6, 2017 S-T

Stone Soup Sylvio SEE: Short and Sweet FRI, MAR 31 • 9:15 PM UW CINEMATHEQUE ALBERT BIRNEY SCHEDULED TO APPEAR There Are Jews Here MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • WED, APR 5 • 6:15 PM USA • 2017 • DCP • 80 MIN SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 STEP Director: Albert Birney, Kentucker Audley; THU, APR 6 • 6:00 PM Screenwriter: Albert Birney, Kentucker Audley, THU, APR 6 • 12:00 PM Meghan Doherty; Producer: Meghan Doherty; SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 Editor: Sylvio Bernardi, Kentucker Audley; Cast: WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA • 2017 • DCP • 83 MIN Sylvio Bernardi, Kentucker Audley, Tallie Medel, TOBEY LIBBER, BRAD LICHTENSTEIN, Meghan Doherty; Cinematographer: Eric Laplante MORGAN JOHNSON SCHEDULED TO APPEAR Director: Amanda Lipitz; Producer: Steven Cantor, Amanda Lipitz; Editor: Penelope Falk; Cinematographer: Casey Regan SECTION: AMERICAN VISIONS USA • DCP • 90 MIN SECTION: AMERICAN VISIONS, NEW WOMEN DIRECTORS, CLOSING NIGHT As if he didn’t have enough problems Director: Brad Lichtenstein, Morgan Elise Johnson; Producer: Brad Lichtenstein, First-time feature director Amanda Lipitz’s exhilarating documentary The Student being a gorilla, Sylvio (Sylvio Ber- Morgan Elise Johnson; Editor: Matt focuses on three high-school seniors in the inaugural class at the Balti- nardi, as himself) is finding it hard Lauterbach; Cinematographer: Jason Longo; Music: Vernon Reid more Leadership School for Young Women, as they balance academic (M)uchenik to be a success as a collections agent. SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN pressure with their more exciting extracurricular efforts on the “Le- SUN, APR 2 • 5:00 PM In the midst of his existential crisis, the sunglasses-wearing ape takes on Milwaukee-based filmmaker Brad thal Ladies” step dance team. This senior year is a complex challenge SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 for the engaging protagonists. The girls strive to win the state competi- the assignment of collecting from the Lichtenstein (along with co-director tion for the first time, and the school’s mission of sending every one of MON, APR 3 • 3:30 PM deadbeat local TV host Al Reynolds Morgan Johnson) tell the stories of its low-income students to college adds even more anxiety to the ap- SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 (Kentucker Audley), whose studio is in four once thriving American Jew- plication process. Charismatic, confident Blessin wants to move to New WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative the basement of his house. Stumbling ish communities as they struggle to • Russia • 2016 • DCP • Russian onto Al’s set, Sylvio quickly becomes survive. In Laredo, Texas we follow York, but she struggles with her grades and the difficulties of a mother with English subtitles • 118 MIN with depression and anger issues. Cori is a smart, shy student who a media star whose fans encourage a young, interfaith couple trying to Director: Kirill Serebrennikov; Screenwriter: reignite their community’s Jewish needs a scholarship to attend her prestigious dream school, and Tayla Kirill Serebrennikov; Producer: Ilya Stewart, him to smash things with a baseball is the determined only child to a mother who tirelessly supports her. Diana Safarova, Yury Kozyrev; Editor: bat by shouting “what’s the ape gonna life amid a dominant Catholic cul- Yury Karikh; Cast: Petr Skvortsov, Victoria break?” But the inwardly sensitive ture. In Montana we are immersed Lipitz’s attention to these three members of the step team in particular, Isakova, Julia Aug, Alexandr Gorchilin; both at home and school, allows her to create touching depictions of Cinematographer: Vladislav Opelyants Sylvio would rather express himself in the beauty of the mountains where a spiritually committed woman lay mother-daughter relationships, while the girls also receive heartwarm- SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA and explore life’s more quiet details through the bald-headed mustachioed leader tries to keep her community ing support from tenacious mentors like their college counselor and the A thrillingly shot yet disturbing study team’s step coach. Such sensitive, emotional material is seamlessly inte- puppet he calls Herbert Herpels. This afloat, even as she struggles with of religious fanaticism, Kirill Sere- is the central conflict at the heart of personal health. We go to Latrobe, grated into an inspiring story about the art of step, from early rehears- brennikov’s The Student introduces als to the final competition. This infectious, joyful, and rousing film is this whimsical, delightfully odd fairy Pennsylvania where the synagogue’s us to a teenage rebel whose cause is tale, a feature-length extension of a leaders hold on to keep their doors not to be missed. STEP won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award Christianity. A handsome and ener- for Inspirational Filmmaking at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. (MSJ) series of popular Vine videos created open just long enough to host the bat getic teenager, Venya (the impres- by Albert Birney (The Beast Pageant) mitzvah of the congregation’s oldest sively frightening Pyotr Skvortsov) who co-wrote and co-directed with member’s granddaughter. Finally, we obsessively quotes the bible to his microcinema mainstay Audley (Bad follow a family’s move from Los An- mother and fellow classmates, but Europe’s refugee crisis is confronted Fever, Sabbatical, WFF 2014). (JH) geles to Dothan, Alabama where we only to the degree that they support head-on in this daring conversation- discover the bold relocation project his intolerant stands on feminism, starter. The film unfolds in three acts, that community’s undertaken, of- Judaism and homosexuality. So far, each of which takes place in a classroom fering financial support to Jews who he has successfully advocated to full of actual refugees. At the front is move to their town. Full of vivid por- ban two piece swimsuits from gym Valentin, a Dutch actor who embodies traits and surprising developments, classes. He has also become a serious a different political stance in each act: There Are Jews Here is a heartfelt, thorn in the side of his Jewish-born he’s a right-winger in the first iteration, moving examination of what it means atheistic biology teacher, Elena (Vic- liberal in the second, and finally, in the to be Jewish in modern day America, toria Isakova). When the instructor third, he represents the actual Dutch where the passing on of cultural and expresses her lack of spiritual views position on refugees. The blunt dia- religious traditions has become a in the classroom during the teaching logues between Valentin’s personae and hard-fought struggle. (BR) of evolutionary theory, the brooding the asylum seekers can be as enraging Venya angrily protests by donning a Take Me Home Presented with support from Wisconsin Stranger in Paradise as they are illuminating, and are never Public Television and The Mosse/ gorilla suit. When Elena tells this to less than riveting. These are difficult SEE: The Traveler Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies. TUE, APR 4 • 6:30 PM the conservative-leaning principal, and necessary dialogues, and 28 year- SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 she is told to consider incorporating old director Guido Hendrikx rises to creationism into her syllabus. A battle MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG WED, APR 5 • 3:15 PM the level of fearless, challenging, and of wills breaks out between the in- SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 provocative filmmaking that this politi- creasingly unstable Venya and Elena, PANEL DISCUSSION WITH MARIE cal firestorm requires. Accomplished who struggles to maintain her own CHRISTINE KOHLER FELLOWS @ WID with little more than a chalkboard and FOLLOWING 4/4 SCREENING equilibrium in the face of so much ab- conversation, Stranger in Paradise is a Q&A LED BY OPEN DOORS FOR REFUGEES surdity. The Student is an urgent, often brutal lesson for us all, not least in its FOLLOWING 4/5 SCREENING satirical response to the Russian bill damning epilogue. “If Lars Von Trier WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • enforcing mandatory religious educa- The Netherlands • 2016 • DCP • 72 MIN were to make a documentary about the tion in state schools passed in 2013 Director: Guido Hendrikx; Screenwriter: current immigration crisis in Europe, it by Russian President Putin, whose Guido Hendrikx; Producer: Frank van might very well turn out like Stranger in den Engel; Cast: Valentijn Dhaenens; expressionless photograph hangs on Paradise” (Variety). (MK) Cinematographer: Emo Weemhoff; Music: the wall overlooking the classrooms Ella van der Woude, Juho Nurmela Presented with support from Open in much of this film’s drama. (JH) SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL Doors for Refugees and The Marie DOCUMENTARIES Christine Kohler Fellows @ WID. Presented with support from CREECA. 31 T WISCONSIN FILM FESTIVAL

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Those Who Make Time to Die Revolution Halfway Only Tiempo de morir SUN, APR 2 • 7:30 PM Things to Come Dig Their Own Graves UW CINEMATHEQUE L’avenir Ceux qui font les révolutions THU, APR 6 • 2:30 PM à moitié n’ont fait que se SUNDANCE CINEMA 1 SUN APR 2 • 3:45 PM creuser un tombeau SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Narrative • Mexico • 1966 • FRI, MAR 31 • 11:00 AM DCP • Spanish with English subtitles • 88 MIN THU, APR 6 • 3:15 PM SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 Director: Arturo Ripstein; Screenwriter: Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez; SUNDANCE CINEMA 6 Producer: Arturo Ripstein, Sr., César Santos Galindo; Editor: Carlos Savage; Cast: WED, APR 5 • 7:15 PM Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Marga López, Enrique Rocha, Alfredo Leal, Bianca MADISON PREMIERE • Narrative • Sánchez; Cinematographer: Alex Phillips; Music: Carlos Jiménez Mabarak France • 2016 • DCP • French with SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 English subtitles • 102 MIN SECTION: RESTORATIONS AND REDISCOVERIES MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • Director: Mia Hansen-Løve; Screenwriter: Canada • 2016 • DCP • English, French This simple but effective Western parable marked the feature debut of WISCONSIN’S OWN SHORT DOCUMENTARIES Mia Hansen-Løve; Producer: Charles with English subtitles • 183 MIN the internationally acclaimed Mexican director Arturo Ripstein and Gillibert; Editor: Marion Monnier; Cast: Director: Mathieu Denis, Simon Lavoie; Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman boasts a script by literary giants Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel Garcia Screenwriter: Mathieu Denis, Simon Transmissions Kolinka, Édith Scob, Sarah Le Picard; Lavoie; Producer: Hany Ouichou; Márquez! The story tells of former gunman Juan Sayago (Jorge Marti- Cinematographer: Denis Lenoir Editor: Mathieu Denis; Cast: Charlotte nez de Hoyos), who, after serving 30 years in jail for murder, returns to from the Heartland SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA Aubin, Laurent Bélanger, Emmanuelle his small town where his past has become the stuff of legend. Sayago as- Lussier-Martinez, Gabrielle Tremblay; THU, MAR 30 • 7:00 PM 2017 Best Actress contender Isabelle Cinematographer: Nicolas Canniccioni sumes he will live the rest of his life in peace, but Pedro Trueba (Enrique BARRYMORE THEATRE Huppert could just as easily have Rocha) the hot-headed son of the man Sayago killed, has other plans. SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA 85 MIN been nominated for her superlative Though Pedro’s more moderate brother Julian (Alfredo Leal) might be This enthralling political epic fol- SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN, performance as Nathalie, a strong- willing to forget the past, it seems there will be blood. Although it was lows four young radicals from Quebec SHORTS SECTION willed philosophy professor whose released widely to great critical and audience acclaim throughout Mex- who are driven, at first, to acts of Four short documentaries from our husband suddenly leaves her for ico in 1966, Tiempo de Morir was almost never shown in the U.S. until vandalism and gradually move closer Wisconsin’s Own section of the Fes- another woman. Starting over in late now. Filmed in austere black and white, the movie has a simple, poetic to terrorism. The four protagonists tival that will remind you why we’re middle age, she gravitates towards power courtesy of scripters Márquez and Fuentes, two writers who, like have adopted the aliases Klas Batalo here. These are four glimpses into the the radical politics of her youth, as Juan Sayago, would eventually achieve near mythical status. (JH) (Gabrielle Tremblay), Ordinne Nuovo lives and times of the eccentric, sin- embodied by one of her protégés. (Emmanuelle Lussier-Martinez), gular inhabitants of our fair state as As in Elle, Huppert inhabits her Tumulto (Laurent Belanger) and they strive to communicate, person to character with matchless autonomy Guitizia (Charlotte Aubin). Partly this correctional facility, observing person, over the airwaves, and under and elegance. Among its many re- disillusioned because the 2012 “Maple the patients’ interactions with the the radar. Together these subjects wards, Things to Come is a chance to Spring” protest movement of their guards, doctors, and social workers blend to paint a picture of our par- witness one of the world’s greatest student days in Montreal did not lead who monitor their behavior and even ticularly Midwestern state-of-being. actresses at the top of her game. to sweeping societal changes, they determine their fates. The frequently Filled with humor, mystery, and a Writer/director Mia Hansen-Løve have rejected the world in which inhumane conduct of these guards sense of wonder, we invite you to (Goodbye First Love, WFF 2012) is they live and are holed up in a shabby and other officials transforms daily come spend an evening with us here fast becoming one of cinema’s great house. Though they are all from activities like counseling and medical in the heartland. intuitive poets of time and memory, relatively privileged backgrounds, procedures into troubling scenes, and crafting extraordinarily lifelike The screenings will be preceded by our they lead an austere lifestyle in their bizarre events like the talent show films that are rich with novelistic Golden Badger Awards presentation. underground commune, living off the that prompted the film’s title make detail. Named one of the year’s ten money Batalo makes as a transgender Titicut Follies the entire setting even more shock- best films by New York Times chief A Place in the Garden prostitute. The writer-directors Ma- ing. The cruel conditions and treat- film critic A.O. Scott, and ranked on FRI, MAR 31 • 3:45 PM CHRISTINA CIANO AND JEFF BUSS thieu Denis and Simon Lavoie have, in ment endured by the patients, as well countless more Best of 2016 lists, CHAZEN MUSEUM OF ART SCHEDULED TO APPEAR the spirit of movies like Godard’s La as ethical questions about patients’ including at Film Comment, Village WORLD PREMIERE • Documentary • Chinoise, adopt a radical style to tell SAT, APR 1 • 6:15 PM rights, led to a 25-year ban of the film USA • 2016 • HD Projection • 15 MIN Voice, LA Times, and Sight & Sound. this story. Their techniques include a CHAZEN MUSEUM OF ART beginning with its initial release, yet Director: Jeff Buss, Christina Ciano; Winner, Best Director, 2016 Berlin significant amount of contemporary SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Documentary its reputation as one of the most sig- Producer: Jeff Buss, Christina Ciano; Editor: Film Festival. (MK) • USA • 1967 • 35mm • 84 MINUTES Jeff Buss, Christina Ciano; Cast: Kathi news footage, multiple aspect ratios, nificant documentaries ever made has Rock, Michael Rock, Emily Scheunemann, copious nudity and, in the outdated Director: Frederick Wiseman; Producer: persisted. 50 years after it was pro- Larry Scheunemann, Mickey O’Connor; Frederick Wiseman; Editor: Frederick Cinematographer: Jeff Buss, Christina Ciano Hollywood epic tradition, a musi- Wiseman; Cinematographer: John Marshall duced, Titicut Follies remains engross- ing, graphic, and disturbing, a testa- Two Wisconsin couples moonlight cal overture and interlude! “A tense, SECTIONS: RESTORATIONS mournful, and profoundly ambivalent AND REDISCOVERIES ment to the importance of honest and as experts on the rare, beautiful portrait of radicalism…[the movie] Launching a career marked by un- unhampered documentation of social hummingbird. With infectious en- pulses with the vitality of four young flinching portrayals of American institutions. Wiseman’s film is a mas- thusiasm they build oases in their people who, however flawed or fool- institutions, renowned documentar- terful work of non-fiction observation, yards and educate friends about the hardy, sincerely want to change the ian Frederick Wiseman’s contro- a prime example of the unobtrusive, importance of this species. Showing world” (Scott Tobias, Variety). Win- versial first film takes a close look at unfiltered American Direct Cinema fascinating footage of hummingbirds ner, Best Canadian Feature, 2016 To- Massachusetts’s Bridgewater State style that he helped establish. A 35mm in flight and exhibiting a singular love ronto Film Festival. Special Mention, Hospital for the Criminally Insane. restoration, produced by Wiseman’s for its subject, this film just might Zipporah Films and the Library of convince you to make room in your MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG This is Happening Now Berlinale Generation, 2017 Berlin During a 29-day period, Wiseman’s Congress, will be screened. (MSJ) garden, too. (MSJ) 32 SEE: Divided We Fall Film Festival. (JH) camera investigates all aspects of MARCH 30 - APRIL 6, 2017 T

The Dundee Project captivating look at the private side of a of the alleys and stairways of southern MARK BORCHARDT SCHEDULED TO APPEAR longtime Wisconsin radio icon, and a Italy, with a soccer ball as our guide. Ki- MADISON PREMIERE • Documentary • fascinating, fl y-on-the-wall glimpse of arostami’s gentle fi nale recalls an iconic USA • 2016 • HD Projection • 20 MIN the end of an era. (BR) shot from his 1990 masterpiece Close- Director: Mark Borchardt; Producer: Joe Up. 2016 Venice Film Festival. (MK) Pickett, Nick Prueher, Andrew Swant Silently Steal Away Seen any UFOs in Wisconsin lately? ANDREW SWANT AND MARK BORCHARDT The Traveler No? Then you haven’t been to Dundee SCHEDULED TO APPEAR Mossafer in Fond Du Lac County. Hang out MADISON PREMIERE • Documentary • USA • 2016 • HD Projection • 20 MIN SPECIAL PRESENTATION • Narrative with Wisconsin’s (in)famous cult fi lm • Iran • 1974 • 35mm • Farsi with Director: Andrew Swant; Producer: Chris hero, Mark Borchardt, and Dundee English subtitles • 73 MIN UFO Days James Thompson; Editor: Andrew Swant; locals as they drink and talk and drink Cast: Justin Vernon, Mark Borchardt Director: Abbas Kiarostami; Editor: Amir SEE: Creepshow some more while revisiting their ex- Hossein Hami; Cast: Hassan Darabi, Masud Every night the Jack Raymond Show Zandbegleh, Mostafa Tari; Cinematographer: periences not only seeing alien crafts lights up the airwaves around Chippe- The Traveler Firooz Malekzadeh; Music: Kambiz Roshanravan but getting abducted by them. The wa Falls, Wisconsin and for 48 years, FRI, MAR 31 • 1:45 PM SECTION: RESTORATIONS Dundee Project is the cinematic equiv- fans have tuned in. But who is Jack CHAZEN MUSEUM OF ART AND REDISCOVERIES alent of unwinding on a warm Wis- Raymond? Who is running the eccen- Qassem (the charismatic Hassan consin summer night, watching the tric Chippewa Falls radio station and SUN, APR 2 • 12:00 PM Darabi) is a school age boy who, ne- skies, and sipping on a cool one. (KJ) why has the show endured these many CHAZEN MUSEUM OF ART glected by his parents and abused by years? Silently Steal Away, narrated by In memory of one of international his teachers, has poured all of his love Whad’Ya Do Now? Mark Borchardt (Coven) and featuring cinema’s greatest fi lmmakers, Abbas and attention into one pursuit: soccer. MARC KORNBLATT AND MICHAEL appearances by Justin Vernon (Bon Kiarostami (1940-2016), we proudly Desperate to attend his fi rst profes- FELDMAN SCHEDULED TO APPEAR Iver) and others, is a delightfully en- present this soccer-themed program sional match, Qassem does everything Unbuttoned WORLD PREMIERE • Documentary • consisting of his fi rst full-length fea- in his power, honest and otherwise, to USA • 2016 • HD Projection • 30 MIN tertaining investigation of the myster- SEE: Creepshow (KJ) ture The Traveler (1974) and his fi nal raise the money for a ticket. Writer- Director: Marc Kornblatt; Producer: Marc ies of The Jack Raymond Show. Kornblatt; Editor: Marc Kornblatt; Cast: Michael work, the experimental short fi lm director Abbas Kiarostami considered Feldman; Cinematographer: Marc Kornblatt Take Me Home (2016). The Traveler his fi rst feature fi lm and After 31 years on the air, the powers its story is told in the same neorealist that be pull the plug on Michael Feld- Take Me Home style that informed his later movies man’s comedic radio talk/game show, WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Experimental • about children like Where is the Friend’s Whad’Ya Know?, but Feldman isn’t Iran • 2016 • HD Projection • 16 MIN Home (1987) and The White Balloon quite ready to retire. Marc Kornblatt’s Director: Abbas Kiarostami; Editor: Adel (1995), which Kiarostami wrote for intimate documentary fi nds a wound- Yaraghi; Cast: Biagio di Tonno director Jafar Panahi. A work of direct ed Feldman struggling to remain SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA simplicity, humor and suspense, 35mm positive and end the show’s run with The fi nal work by Iranian master Abbas print courtesy of the Los Angeles dignity and his signature comedic Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry, Certifi ed County Museum of Art Collection at Water Path for a Fish aplomb. Whad’Ya Do Now? is both a Copy) is a characteristically playful tour the Academy Film Archive. (JH) SEE: Shorter and Sweeter

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ly enjoyable film—and often, partly be- cause of its relative demureness, a fairly arousing one, with female pleasure and male discomfiture foremost on the menu” (Screen Daily). (MK)

Way of Giants Yourself and Yours SEE: Short and Sweet Dangsinjasingwa dangsinui geot Wigilia FRI, MAR 31 • 5:30 PM Whad’Ya Do Now? MON, APR 3 • 6:00 PM UW CINEMATHEQUE Whale SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 SAT, APR 1 • 6:45 PM SEE: Transmissions from 94 MIN SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 SEE: Shorter and Sweeter the Heartland MIDWEST PREMIERE • Narrative • Christmas Trees South Korea • 2016 • DCP • Korean JACK WHALEY SCHEDULED TO ATTEND with English subtitles • 86 MIN MADISON PREMIERE • Narrative • USA Director: Hong Sang-Soo; Screenwriter: Hong • 2016 • DCP, HD Projection • 24 MIN Sang-Soo; Producer: Kang Taeu; Editor: Hahm Sungwon; Cast: Kim Joo-hyuck, Lee Director: Michael Whaley, Jack Whaley; Youyoung; Cinematographer: Park Hongyeol Screenwriter: Michael Whaley; Producer: Jack A Well Spent Afternoon Whaley, Michael Whaley, Hunter Connors SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA Herm; Cast: James Ridge, Brian Mani, Colleen A romance grows more beguiling after SEE: Short and Sweet Madden; Cinematographer: Jack Whaley it ends, when one of the partners seems SECTION: WISCONSIN’S OWN to slip between identities. It begins Christmas Trees follows a man deal- when Youngsoo breaks up with Min- ing with deep sadness after tragedy jung after hearing she’s betrayed him strikes. While still mourning a loss, he by getting drunk with another man is confronted with an offer to sell his (she’d promised to cut down to 5 drinks fir trees for the upcoming Christmas per day). The next day, Youngsoo season. Boasting exquisite perfor- cannot find her, though a mysterious mances by core members of American woman who looks just like her is meet- Players Theater and beautiful cinema- ing his friends all over town, claiming tography that exhibits the haunting to be her own twin. Does Minjung re- nature of the Wisconsin winter, this ally have a twin, or is she putting these Wet Woman in the Wind breathtaking short analyzes loss, the personae on? In its enchanting am- ability to move on, and man’s connec- biguity, Yourself and Yours brilliantly Kaze ni nureta onna tion with nature. (KJ) teases out the communication break- FRI, MAR 31 • 7:00 PM downs, insecurities, and obsessions SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 Wigilia that characterize our relationships. DIRECTOR GRAHAM DRYSDALE This cinematic puzzle is, like romance SAT, APR 1 • 8:30 PM SCHEDULED TO APPEAR itself, great fun—and perfectly unsolv- SUNDANCE CINEMA 5 NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE • able. Currently riding one of world Narrative • UK • 2016 • DCP • 70 MIN WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Narrative cinema’s longest running hot streaks, • Japan • 2016 • DCP • Japanese Director: Graham Drysdale; Screenwriter: with English subtitles • 77 MIN Whose Streets? Graham Drysdale, Iwona Glowinska, Duglas T Korean master Hong Sang-soo’s latest Stewart; Producer: Grant McPhee, Steven Moore, Director: Akihiko Shiota; Screenwriter: Akihiko is a clever riff on fellow trickster auteur SAT, APR 1 • 5:00 PM Graham Drysdale; Editor: Shaun Glowa; Cast: Shiota; Producer: Naoko Komuro, Shinichiro Luis Buñuel’s That Obscure Object of Iwona Glowinska, Duglas T Stewart, Simon Weir, Masuda, Masahiko Takahashi; Editor: Takashi Sato; BARRYMORE THEATRE Elek Kish, Rony Bridges, Hev Morrison, Fergus Desire. “An excellent film, at once harsh Cast: Yuki Mamiya, Tasuku Nagaoka, Ryushin PRODUCER JENNIFER MACARTHUR SCHEDULED TO APPEAR Cook, Daniel Reid ; Music: Jim Harbourne Tei, Michiko Suzuki, Hitomi Nakatani, Takahiro and hilarious, that squirms with de- Kato; Cinematographer: Hidetoshi Shinomiya WISCONSIN PREMIERE • Documentary • USA • 2017 • DCP • 103 MIN SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA lightful discomfort around a wonder- SECTION: NEW INTERNATIONAL CINEMA Director: Sabaah Folayan, Damon Davis; Producer: Jennifer MacArthur, This charming and touching two- fully perverse premise” (Mubi). (MK) Sabaah Folayan, Damon Davis, Flannery Miller; Editor: Christopher Hang on tight for this whacked-out McNabb; Cinematographer: Lucas Alvarado-Farrar hander brings together two lonely Presented with support from the Department skin flick, made in giddy homage to SECTION: AMERICAN VISIONS, NEW WOMEN DIRECTORS souls in surprising ways on a Christ- of Asian Languages and Cultures. mas Eve in Glasgow. Alone in Scot- the Japanese pink films of the 1970s. A Standing firmly alongside The 13th and I Am Not Your Negro, this gal- land for the holidays, Polish cleaner recluse living in a mountain shack, Ko- vanizing documentary provides an essential living history of the Black Agata (Iwona Glowinska) is trying to suke craves peace and quiet. That goes Lives Matter movement in Ferguson, Missouri. Utilizing cell phone celebrate Wigilia, her country’s tra- out the window when Shiori careens footage of the 2014 uprising, activist-turned-director Sabaah Folayan ditional Christmas feast, in an apart- into his life, propositioning him out of brings us a street-level view of protests usually seen from news heli- ment whose owner is away. Before it the blue on the beach. A self-described copters, showing us firsthand just how quickly American streets can can get started, she’s alarmed to be “love hunter,” Shiori won’t take no come to resemble an occupied state. Times are bad, and Whose Streets? joined by Robbie (Duglas T. Stewart), for an answer—but she won’t seem to shows resistance as a way forward, finding strength in community the ne’er-do-well brother of the apart- take yes either—and traps Kosuke in and looking towards the future with energy and passion. With its ment’s owner. Since she’s made plenty a bizarre psychosexual fight club. A panoply of voices and searing clarity, Whose Streets? is the autobiog- of food and Wigilia always allows a truly anarchic character, Shiori is a raphy of a movement. “When people ask about the Black Lives Matter spot for a wandering pilgrim to arrive, whirlwind of base impulses: violent, movement, whether it’s a year or 50 from now, I will tell them to see Youth Agata and Robbie spend some time amorous, and, like the film itself, totally Whose Streets?. This documentary is extremely potent. The anger is so getting to know each other. A movie SEE: Creepshow unpredictable. It’s the increasingly ac- visceral, and so goddamn tragic. Just the same, its images of love and about two people who help each other robatic sex scenes that bring down the pride will fill your soul” (RogerEbert.com). “Electrifying. A documen- in unexpected ways, Wigilia was house (sometimes literally), blurring tary in the truest sense of the word: an actual moving document of written by director Graham Drysdale the line between fight choreography events fresh in the country’s memory, but never before laid as bare as and his two enormously appealing and carnality. “One of the jolliest and they are here. It is a vital tribute to the activists who continue to fight main actors. It marks the feature most pugnacious erotic films ever every day in America’s unrelenting war on black folks, and it couldn’t debut for Drysdale, whose 1998 short made. The sheer energy of the perform- have come soon enough” (Indiewire). Opening Night, 2017 Sundance film Lovely was a prizewinning hit at ers, especially the exuberantly funny Film Festival. (MK) MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG Mamiya, and the slapstick goofiness of several festivals in Europe and North 34the whole make this an eccentric, huge- America. 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8:45 PM Kati Kati 7:15 PM The Challenge 6:00 PM Sami Blood 7:45 PM Nocturama THURSDAY, MARCH 30 Sundance Cinema 5 UW Cinematheque Sundance Cinema 1 Sundance Cinema 5 5:30 PM Opening Night Celebration Barrymore Theatre 9:00 PM Personal Shopper 7:15 PM I, Daniel Blake 6:30 PM A Quiet Passion 8:30 PM It’s Not the Time of My Life Sundance Cinema 6 Union South Marquee Union South Marquee Sundance Cinema 1 7:00 PM Transmissions from the... Barrymore Theatre 9:15 PM Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo 8:00 PM Indivisible 7:00 PM 60 Yard Line 8:45 PM Clash Sundance Cinema 1 Sundance Cinema 1 Barrymore Theatre Sundance Cinema 6 9:30 PM VO5 Disco Dance Party Harmony Bar – No ticket required! 9:15 PM Sylvio 8:00 PM The Salesman 7:30 PM The Crucible 9:15 PM Infinity Baby UW Cinematheque Barrymore Theatre Sundance Cinema 5 Union South Marquee 8:15 PM Ernest Borgnine on the... 7:30 PM Time to Die FRIDAY, MARCH 31 Chazen Museum of Art UW Cinematheque 11:00 AM The Gold of Naples SATURDAY, APRIL 1 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5 8:15 PM 8:15 PM Chazen Museum of Art 10:00 AM Seeds and Cells... Frantz Contemporary Color 12:00 PM It’s Not the Time of My Life UW Cinematheque Sundance Cinema 6 Sundance Cinema 6 Sundance Cinema 1 11:00 AM Little Wing 8:30 PM 8:30 PM UW Cinematheque 10:30 AM Bugs Wet Woman in the Wind Fraud 12:15 PM The Hero Sundance Cinema 5 Sundance Cinema 1 Sundance Cinema 6 11:00 AM Short and Sweet Barrymore Theatre 9:00 PM Dark Night Union South Marquee 11:00 AM The Front Page 12:30 PM Nocturama UW Cinematheque MONDAY, APRIL 3 Sundance Cinema 5 11:00 AM Those Who Make... Chazen Museum of Art 9:30 PM Creepshow: Wisconsin’s... 12:30 PM A Quiet Passion Sundance Cinema 5 11:00 AM 2:00 PM Goldstone Shorter and Sweeter Union South Marquee Sundance Cinema 6 Sundance Cinema 1 11:15 AM Maria (and Everybody... Union South Marquee 1:00 PM The Cinema Travellers Sundance Cinema 1 11:00 AM Abacus: Small Enough... 3:00 PM Frantz SUNDAY, APRIL 2 Sundance Cinema 5 12:00 PM One Week and a Day Sundance Cinema 1 Sundance Cinema 6 11:00 AM Across the World and... 1:30 PM Dogs Sundance Cinema 6 3:15 PM Stranger in Paradise 11:15 AM The Rehearsal UW Cinematheque Sundance Cinema 1 1:00 PM At Eye Level Sundance Cinema 5 Sundance Cinema 5 11:00 AM Divided We Fall 3:15 PM Bugs Union South Marquee 4:30 PM The Challenge 11:30 AM Alba Barrymore Theatre Sundance Cinema 6 1:15 PM Sami Blood Sundance Cinema 6 Sundance Cinema 1 11:00 AM Forever Pure 3:30 PM The Student UW Cinematheque 5:30 PM 12:30 PM From Mass to the... Sundance Cinema 5 Sundance Cinema 5 Machines 1:30 PM A Decent Woman UW Cinematheque Sundance Cinema 5 Sundance Cinema 1 11:00 AM Heidi 3:45 PM Son of Joseph 12:30 PM Mr. Frog Union South Marquee Sundance Cinema 1 6:00 PM Look & See 1:45 PM The Traveler Union South Marquee Sundance Cinema 6 Chazen Museum of Art 11:15 AM I, Daniel Blake 5:45 PM Dina 12:30 PM Obit Sundance Cinema 6 Sundance Cinema 6 6:15 PM There Are Jews Here 2:15 PM The Donor Barrymore Theatre Sundance Cinema 1 Sundance Cinema 6 11:30 AM Maria (and Everybody... 6:00 PM Wigilia 1:30 PM Broken Lullaby Sundance Cinema 1 Sundance Cinema 5 7:15 PM Those Who Make... 2:30 PM Quest Chazen Museum of Art Sundance Cinema 5 Sundance Cinema 5 12:00 PM The Traveler 6:30 PM Alba 1:30 PM Parting Chazen Museum of Art Sundance Cinema 1 8:00 PM Drifting Towards the... Sundance Cinema 6 3:30 PM Afterimage Sundance Cinema 1 Union South Marquee 1:00 PM American Anarchist 8:00 PM Person to Person 1:45 PM The Happiest Day in the... Sundance Cinema 5 Sundance Cinema 6 8:45 PM Fraud Sundance Cinema 1 3:30 PM Gulîstan, Land of Roses Sundance Cinema 6 UW Cinematheque 1:00 PM Cock of the Air 8:30 PM Killing Ground 2:00 PM Quest UW Cinematheque Sundance Cinema 5 3:45 PM Titicut Follies Sundance Cinema 5 THURSDAY, APRIL 6 Chazen Museum of Art 1:30 PM The Donor 8:45 PM Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo 12:00 PM There Are Jews Here 2:30 PM Speaking in Tongues... Sundance Cinema 6 Sundance Cinema 1 3:45 PM Abacus: Small Enough... Sundance Cinema 1 Union South Marquee Sundance Cinema 1 1:30 PM Portraits and Pictures... Union South Marquee 12:15 PM Gulîstan, Land of Roses 2:45 PM Contemporary Color TUESDAY, APRIL 4 4:30 PM Dina Sundance Cinema 5 Barrymore Theatre Sundance Cinema 6 1:45 PM Indivisible 12:00 PM Person to Person Sundance Cinema 1 Sundance Cinema 6 12:30 PM The Salesman 2:45 PM A Decent Woman 5:00 PM Forever Pure Sundance Cinema 6 Sundance Cinema 5 UW Cinematheque 1:45 PM One Week and a Day 1:00 PM The Freedom to Marry Barrymore Theatre Sundance Cinema 5 2:15 PM Kati Kati 3:15 PM 5:30 PM Yourself and Yours Clash Sundance Cinema 5 UW Cinematheque Sundance Cinema 1 2:15 PM The Gold of Naples 1:30 PM Neruda Chazen Museum of Art Sundance Cinema 1 2:30 PM Time to Die 3:15 PM 6:00 PM Golden Exits The Incident Sundance Cinema 1 Union South Marquee Chazen Museum of Art 3:00 PM The Crowd 2:00 PM Look & See UW Cinematheque Union South Marquee 3:15 PM Things to Come 6:00 PM Neruda 3:45 PM Afterimage Sundance Cinema 6 Barrymore Theatre Sundance Cinema 6 3:00 PM The Freedom to Marry 2:30 PM Obit Sundance Cinema 5 Sundance Cinema 6 4:30 PM Killing Ground 6:00 PM One Potato, Two Potato 4:30 PM Little Wing Sundance Cinema 5 Chazen Museum of Art Sundance Cinema 5 3:45 PM Things to Come 3:00 PM The Crucible Sundance Cinema 6 Sundance Cinema 5 4:30 PM Parting 6:30 PM The Son of Joseph 4:30 PM Almost Sunrise 4:00 PM The Colorado 4:15 PM Illegitimate Sundance Cinema 1 Sundance Cinema 1 Union South Marquee MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG Union South Marquee Sundance Cinema 1 6:00 PM STEP 6:45 PM The Happiest Day in the... 5:00 PM The Cinema Travellers 4:00 PM Illegitimate 4:30 PM Lost in Paris Sundance Cinema 6 Sundance Cinema 6 UW Cinematheque Sundance Cinema 1 Sundance Cinema 6 6:15 PM King Of Jazz 7:00 PM Wet Woman in the Wind 5:00 PM Whose Streets? 4:15 PM Max & Leon 4:30 PM My Life as a Zucchini Sundance Cinema 5 Sundance Cinema 5 Barrymore Theatre Barrymore Theatre Union South Marquee 6:30 PM My Life as a Zucchini 7:30 PM American Anarchist 5:45 PM Dogs 5:00 PM Broken Lullaby 6:00 PM Machines Sundance Cinema 1 UW Cinematheque Sundance Cinema 1 Chazen Museum of Art Sundance Cinema 5 8:00 PM 8:15 PM The Rehearsal The Lost City of Z 6:00 PM Max & Leon Sundance Cinema 6 Union South Marquee 5:00 PM The Student 6:15 PM Goldstone Sundance Cinema 6 Sundance Cinema 5 Sundance Cinema 1 8:30 PM Ladies and Gentlemen... 8:30 PM Patti Cake$ 6:15 PM Titicut Follies Sundance Cinema 1 & 5 Chazen Museum of Art 5:15 PM The Missing Sun 6:30 PM The Hero Chazen Museum of Art UW Cinematheque Union South Marquee 8:30 PM Lost in Paris 6:45 PM Yourself and Yours Barrymore Theatre 6:00 PM Personal Shopper 6:30 PM Stranger in Paradise Sundance Cinema 5 Sundance Cinema 6 Sundance Cinema 6 TOTAL: 37 MADISON PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED FRIDAY, MARCH 31!?! 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Many Festival admission lines form outside the UW CINEMATHEQUE theater, including those at Sundance Cinemas. Please dress appropriately and bring an Room 4070, Vilas Hall 821 University Avenue umbrella if there’s a chance of precipitation. Website: cinema.wisc.edu Bus routes listed below stop within a few blocks HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE of each venue. To plan your trip and confirm BUS ROUTES: 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 15, 19, 29, routes, visit cityofmadison.com/metro/ 37, 38, 48, 56, 57, 58, 70, 71, 72, 80, 82. For accessibility/mobility-related questions see p. 5 BCYCLE LOCATIONS: Hawthorne Court & State Street (619 State Street) of this guide or visit the venue websites listed below. N. Lake Street @ University Avenue (381 N. Lake Street) Wisconsin Film Festival box office phone number SUGGESTED CAMPUS PARKING: UW Lots 7, 46, 83 for all ticketing needs/questions is 608-265-2933. Weekend and evening (after 4:30pm) parking also available in UW Lots 55, 56, and 61 Individual venues will not have ticketing information. A city ramp parking option is The State Street Campus Garage at Lake Street (415 N. Lake Street) and Frances Street (430 BARRYMORE THEATRE N. Frances Street). This ramp is open and enforced 24/7. 2090 Atwood Avenue Cinematheque is located at 4070 Vilas Hall, 608-241-8864 immediately south and east of the intersection Website: barrymorelive.com of Park Street and University Avenue. Room HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE 4070, also known as the Parliamentary Room, Parking: Barrymore has a limited space park- is in the center of the open fourth-floor plaza of ing behind the building. There are a number of Vilas Hall and is accessible from the Park Street non-metered street parking options available in stairs and elevator, and the stairs on University the area. United Way of Dane County (2059 At- Avenue and the stairs facing University Square wood Avenue) parking lot is available to Festival and the Lucky Building. patrons on Saturday and Sunday, and after 4:30 Monday-Friday. UW UNION SOUTH MARQUEE Second Floor, Union South BUS ROUTES: 3, 4, 7, 37, 38 1308 West Dayton Street BCYCLE LOCATIONS: Eastwood & 608-890-3000 Division (2048 Eastwood Drive) Website: union.wisc.edu/visit/union-south/the-marquee/ HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE SUNDANCE CINEMAS BUS ROUTES: 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 15, 19, 27, 29, 37, 48, 56, 57, 58, 70, 71, 72, 80, 82 HILLDALE 430 North Midvale Boulevard BCYCLE LOCATIONS: Union South 608-316-6900 SUGGESTED CAMPUS PARKING: UW Lots 17, 20, and 80 Website: sundancecinemas.com Weekend and evening (after 4:30pm) parking HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE also available in UW Lots 16, 54, 55, 56) Parking: Hilldale offers numerous free parking ADDITIONAL PARKING & options: indoor ramps, stalls in front of shops, TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION and two large lots (one by Sundance Cinemas UW–MADISON CAMPUS and the other behind Macy’s). Find parking on campus - map.wisc.edu SUNDANCE BUS ROUTES: 2, 8, 11, W3 (8 is a Number of parking stalls available in real time – weekend bus) – right outside the cinema complex. transportation.wisc.edu/parking/lotinfo_occupancy.aspx HILLDALE BUS ROUTES: 2, 10, 11, CITY RAMPS 12, 15, 28, 56, 57, 70, 71, 72 City Operated Parking Availability BCYCLE LOCATIONS: Hilldale North cityofmadison.com/parkingUtility/garagesLots/availability/ (726 N. Midvale Boulevard) MADISON METRO BUS SERVICE UW CHAZEN MUSEUM OF ART You can take a number of buses to our venues. AUDITORIUM For more information and planning your trip 750 University Avenue (including apps that track the Madison Metro 608-263-2246 Buses), please see: cityofmadison.com/metro/ Website: chazen.wisc.edu HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE BCYCLE BUS ROUTES: 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 15, 19, 29, BCycle is a next-gen bike sharing system. Just 37, 38, 48, 56, 57, 58, 70, 71, 72, 80, 82. swipe your card, grab a bike, and get to where BCYCLE LOCATIONS: Hawthorne Court & State Street (619 you’re going. For more information, include a map State Street) of BCycles around Madison:madison.bcycle.com/ N. Lake Street @ University Avenue (381 N. Lake Street) SUGGESTED CAMPUS PARKING: UW Lots 7, 46, 83 UNION CAB Weekend and evening (after 4:30pm) parking Union Cab is a Worker Cooperative in Madison. also available in UW Lots 55, 56, and 61 You can find out the estimated rate for your ride A city ramp parking option is the State Street Campus Garage or order your taxi via phone or online. at Lake Street (415 N. Lake Street) and Frances Street (430 N. Frances Street). This ramp is open and enforced 24/7. 608-242-2000 | unioncab.com MARCH 30 – APRIL 6, 2017 | WIFILMFEST.ORG

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campus partners African Studies Program Department of German, Nordic and Middle East Studies Program Center for European Studies Slavic Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Center for Russia, East Europe and Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies Central Asia Institute for Regional and International Polymer Engineering Center (PEC) in Studies (IRIS) Center for South Asia The Department of Mechanical Department of Asian Languages and Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Engineering Cultures Studies Program (LACIS) Department of Community and Marie Christine Kohler Fellows @ WID Environmental Sociology hospitality support

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CUNA Mutual Group Goethe Institute Summit Credit Union foundation and individual support For a complete list of the many local businesses and Terry Haller Fund, organizations who have contributed to the 2017 festival, Anonymous Fund John J. Frautschi a component fund of the Family Foundation Madison Community please visit 2017.WIFILMFEST.ORG. THANK YOU! Foundation